रेम्ब्रँट आणि जीए....The Anatomy Lesson During Pandemic

"...Rembrandt चे एक 'Lesson In Anatomy ' नावाचे चित्र आहे. त्यातील levels , masses and colours (विशेषतः brush strokes तर इतके विलक्षण जिवंत आहेत, की प्रत्येक stroke म्हणजेच एक चित्र वाटते. ) फार लक्षणीय आहेत; पण त्या anatomy lesson विषयी काही सोयरसुतक वाटत नाही. लेखनाकडे आणि चित्रकले पाहण्याचा हा दृष्टिकोन माझ्या बाबतीत इतका हट्टी आणि असाध्य झाला आहे, की दुसराही एक दृष्टिकोन असू शकतो , या गोष्टीचा मला विसरच पडतो... "

(तारीख २८ जुलै १९७८, पृष्ठ ४१-४२, ' जी. ए.ची निवडक पत्रे : खंड १", १९९५

पहिली गोष्ट चित्राचे नाव "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" असे आहे. चित्र १६३२ सालचे आहे.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Anatomy_Lesson_of_Dr._Nicola…)

In the work, Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm (The muscular system of an organism) to medical professionals.

म्हणजे हे डॉक्टर लोकांचे पेंटिंग आहे. २०२० सालच्या मे महिन्यात ह्या पेक्षा चांगले चित्र कोणते असू शकते?

दुसरी गोष्ट म्हणजे जीएंची चित्रकलेवरची कमांड पहा: brush strokes , प्रत्येक ब्रश स्ट्रोक म्हणजे एक स्वतंत्र पैंटिंग वगैरे... शिवाय levels , masses and colours याचा चित्रकलेच्या दृष्टीने अभ्यास...
रेम्ब्रांट  कधी जीएंना भेटले असते तर कितीवेळ दोघे बोलत राहिली असती कोणास ठाऊक आणि दोघांचा पत्रव्यवहार असता, तर एक खंड त्याचाच झाला असता.

.....म्हणून जीए हे मराठीला मिळालेले एक अद्वितीय असे टॅलेंट होते.....

कलाकार:  रेम्ब्रँट

ह्या चित्राचे महत्व रेम्ब्रँट यांच्या आयुष्यात काय होते ते वाचा:

"... The Anatomy Lesson was the picture that gave Rembrandt his opportunity, and proclaimed his preeminence among the painters in Amsterdam. It was the custom in those days for corporations, civic bodies, and associations of various kinds, to commemorate their period of office by commissioning portrait groups which should hand down their worthy faces to posterity. The desire of the less prominent members of the associations thus painted was that each head should be a likeness, plainly recognisable, - that one burgher should not be treated with more importance than another. This desire for present and posthumous commemoration extended to medical circles. Portraits and portrait groups of famous physicians and surgeons were painted and hung in the theatres where they lectured or operated. Dr. Tulp, an eminent surgeon of the day, commissioned Rembrandt to represent him performing an operation, proposing to present the picture to the Surgeons’ Guild in memory of his professorship. The grave, realistic picture called The Anatomy Lesson, now hanging at the Hague Museum, was the result. The corpse lies upon the dissecting table; before it stands Dr. Tulp, wearing a broad-brimmed hat; around him are grouped seven elderly students. Some are absorbed by the operation, others gaze thoughtfully at the professor, or at the spectator. Dr. Tulp indicates with his forceps one of the tendons of the subject’s left arm, and appears to be addressing the students, or practitioners, for these seven bearded men have long passed the age of studentship. This picture made Rembrandt’s reputation. He was but twenty-six; the world seemed to be at his feet; in the two following years he painted forty portraits...."

('Rembrandt' by Mortimer Menpes, १९०५)