• Artist  Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn  Year 1633



    Rembrandt painted this portrait of Saskia Uylenburgh in 1633. She was twenty years old at the time and had just become engaged to Rembrandt. They were married a year later. Saskia was the niece of the art dealer Hendrick Uylenburgh, in whose house Rembrandt lived in Amsterdam. Rembrandt had moved to Amsterdam in 1631 where he remained for the rest of his life. From the moment he arrived he received many commissions for portraits, producing more than fifty in the first year alone.




  • Bye Paris You are still my favourite city, even when you are on Strike.
    Thank you Boy'z you are the Best.
    Masta will be back very soon.
    MMaxi



  • Lazer 3.14


    We cage ourselves in the name of Love.

    Your Pain is Fixed Dreams o Solving Axioms





  • " The dream is over we are at war "

    " Eat Shit "



  • Lazer 3.14

    war is declared now let treachery begin




  • Paula Rego

    The Family 1988

    In The Family the absent father and husband returns to the picture plane, only to be manhandled by his daughter and his wife. As usual, the narrative clues are ambiguous, and the story could have several endings. Are the women helping the man or hurting him? Who is the little girl at the window? Do the clues perhaps lie in the Portuguese retablo featuring St. Joan, and St George slaying the dragon? Or in the fable of the stork and the fox illustrated beneath? Is the man as doomed as the dragon, or will he in fact resurface like the fox, to eat the stork, once it has removed the bone lodged in his throat?




  • The story at the heart of the painting came to Paula Rego ready-made in the form of Jean Genet's play The Maids (1947), itself based on the real-life case of the Papin sisters, Christine and Lea, who worked as maids for a rich Parisian family. One day, frightened for no apparent reason other than that of a power cut which inconvenienced and possibly frightened the sisters, they brutally murdered the mother and daughter of the family while the man of the house was out at work. In working with the story, Paula Rego seems to have focused on the unnatural closeness of the sisters, both to each other and the mother and daughter they murder. Ambiguity and menacing psychosis reverberate within the picture, much of it carried in the objects with which the room is claustrophobically furnished. And isn't there something uncertain about the sexuality of the seated figure?

    Paula Rego's Biography and Exhibitions
    BIOGRAPHY

    1934 Born in Lisbon
    1945-51
    Educated in St Julian's School, Carcavelos
    1952-56 The Slade School of Art, London
    1956-63 Lived in Ericeira, Portugal, with her husband, the painter Victor Willing, and three children
    1962-63 Bursary from the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
    1976 Settled permanently in London
    1983 Visiting Lecturer in Painting Slade School of Art
    1990 Appointed the First National Gallery Associate Artist
    1992 Honorary Master of Art, Winchester School of Art, 12 June
    1999Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 24 June
           Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 8 July

    2000 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 3 June
    2002 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, The London Institute, 23 May
    2004Grã Cruz da Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada presented by the President of Portugal

    2005Commissioned by the Royal Mail to produce a set of Jane Eyre Stamps
    Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Oxford University, June
    Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Roehampton University, July

    Currently lives and works in London










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