Chapter 52 Rembrandt wrestling with God

The man said, Your name should no longer be called Jacob, but Rembrandt, because you wrestled with men and God, and you won in the end. Rembrandt was the most outstanding painter in Europe in the 17th century. He was born in a wealthy family and became famous at a young age, but his happiness was like a mirror image. In his early thirties, due to the bereavement of his son, wife and creditors, he fell from the top of heaven to heaven. into the abyss of hell. The chains of life have improved his artistic realm, but Qu Gao has become a mediocre man. The public cannot accept his genius innovations, and painter groups block his painting activities.However, Rembrandt continued to paint, expressing his distress and making a tragic confession of life through colored brushes in a seldom-occupied studio with a compassionate heart. It was not until the age of sixty-four that the paintbrush came out of his hands. drop.

Rembrandt’s good friend Fang Loon, in his biography of Rembrandt, has such a description: Before dying, Rembrandt, who was sick in bed, asked Fang Loon to read for him the scene of Jacob wrestling with the gods in the Bible. a story.When Van Loon finished reading, Rembrandt raised his right hand and looked at it in front of his eyes, and then said in a very soft voice: Jacob was the only one left, and someone came to wrestle with him until dawn, but he didn't Surrendering, he started to fight back, because that was God's will, and he had to fight back. Then he suddenly wanted to sit up, but he couldn't help it, so he put his old oil-painted fingers back on his chest again, and said: The man said, don't call your name Jacob anymore, but Rembrandt, because you and others Wrestling with God, they all prevailed in the end. They were alone, but they all prevailed in the end.

After whispering these last confessions, a generation of outstanding painters finally passed away. During his rough life, painting was the work that Rembrandt never regretted, and it was even the weapon he used to compete with people and gods.When he died, his family was desolate, with only a bible by his side, but he left behind 800 oil paintings, 300 copper engravings and 1,000 sketches.Although it was a tragic victory, he knew that the final victory belonged to him.