Baroque painting (sketch)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-1669, Self Portrait in a cap Open Mouthed 1630

*image source: Lecture slide

Rembrandt van Rijn paint this painting during the baroque period. Baroque, in my understanding, it is a style that magnificence, full of passion, motion and comprehensive. In the above painting, Self Portrait in a cap Open Mouthed, the artist used cross lines to express his emotion, it is similar to what I learn in my drawing class, cross hatching. The difference between what I learned is the way the artist cross the lines, his lines is a motion line, create movement instead of doing shading. From the portrait, the painter seems to express his shocked. Because of this expression, he grab the attention of viewers.

Similar painting:

Self Portrait, Frowning

*image source: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/RP-P-OB-20?lang=en&context_space=&context_id=

Rembrandt van Rijn has done a series of etching about drawing himself in different facial expression. He has a desire to study and record his face expression, change of appearance. Most of his drawings are representing human feeling. The above portrait, Frowning, showed the angry mood of Rembrandt van Rijn.

Self Portrait with Saskia

*image source: http://www.mystudios.com/rembrandt/rembrandt-etchings-sp-with-saskia.html

Rembrandt van Rijn with his wife, Saskia.