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Nachtwacht (2025)Acrylic painting by Gerard Boersma
95 x 95 x 4cm (framed)
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Original artwork description
The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt and formally known as Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. The painting’s simpler, widely known title was erroneously given to it due to its thick, dark yellow varnish, the painting does not depict a nocturnal scene.
Commissioned in 1640 and painted in 1642, at the height of Rembrandt’s career, this colossal painting is a commissioned group portrait of a militia company, the civic guard, charged with preventing attacks on Amsterdam.
Such portraits traditionally depicted their members in neat rows or at a banquet. Rembrandt’s version, however, makes the prosaic subject into a dynamic work of art; with its masterful chiaroscuro and dramatic action, the conventions of traditional portraiture are overturned. I, of course messed it up by adding a modern figure to the scene.
Materials used:
Acrylic on masonite
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 95 x 95 x 4cm (framed)
- This artwork is sold framed
- Signed on the front
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#realism#museum#photorealism#rembrandt#night watch
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Original artwork description
The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt and formally known as Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. The painting’s simpler, widely known title was erroneously given to it due to its thick, dark yellow varnish, the painting does not depict a nocturnal scene.
Commissioned in 1640 and painted in 1642, at the height of Rembrandt’s career, this colossal painting is a commissioned group portrait of a militia company, the civic guard, charged with preventing attacks on Amsterdam.
Such portraits traditionally depicted their members in neat rows or at a banquet. Rembrandt’s version, however, makes the prosaic subject into a dynamic work of art; with its masterful chiaroscuro and dramatic action, the conventions of traditional portraiture are overturned. I, of course messed it up by adding a modern figure to the scene.
Materials used:
Acrylic on masonite
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 95 x 95 x 4cm (framed)
- This artwork is sold framed
- Signed on the front
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#realism#museum#photorealism#rembrandt#night watch
Gerard Boersma
Netherlands
About
I create colorful and highly detailed works of art to express my love for the modern human as well as my concerns about contemporary society.
My hyperreal paintings are based... Read more