Painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn “Allegory of Music”. The size of the painting is 63.5 x 48 cm, oil on canvas. “It is enough to utter the word Rembrandt, and this already means that the word” art “, and even more so, seemed to have been uttered – this phrase, written more than a hundred and thirty years ago, did not grow old, like the other one that contradicts at first glance first: “For the vast majority of people, Rembrandt, his life and his personality are shrouded in the mythical garb with which historians and aesthetics have long been too eagerly covering them.”
This is evidenced by the essay about Rembrandt Edward Colloph, striving for critical clarity: “… the miraculous life of the artist is the story of his works”, and this story appears before us today, more than three hundred years after the artist’s death, much brighter light than the previous generation.
Departure from romanticization and mythologization – under this aspect one should come into contact with the life of Rembrandt, with his work, in order to understand his work even more confidently. “Rembrandt could have been born anywhere, and at any time his art would have been the same,” is the poet Verharn’s so often repeated delusion.
On the contrary, the unique personality of Rembrandt cannot be imagined without the time, nation and society that gave rise to it, inevitably shaping the person and his capabilities, but, of course, it is not the time and not society that decides that a certain Rembrandt van Rhine will become this Rembrandt, or in the words of Franz Mehring, “the greatest artist of the Netherlands revolution”, in the end, by the artist, “who gained his immortality from the first revolution of the New time”. People themselves create their own history, it is said in the writings of Marx and Engels, but only “in the given, defining their environment, on the basis of the data of actual relations”.
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