House of Literature // Art Repeats Itself

Two Studies of A Bird of Paradise (Rembrandt)

"Ladies and gentleman! Art repeats. The history of art is rife with allusion and self-reference. Art is cumulative. The most modern art comments upon, and reflects, everything that came before it. So, although this 1434 van Eyck does not look like a Pollock, Pollock would not exist without van Eyck, and every artist who came between them. Art that looks different is a reaction against, but it is nevertheless a reaction. I'll give you a train of for-instance."

-The Art Thief by Noah Charney, pg. 35
[On the influence of Jan van Eyck as a great artist and influencer of the art that came after his time.]

A Portrait of Titia van Uylenburg (Rembrandt)

I love these Rembrandt drawings...

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