jadrianne
Registered User

You look very nice and you're thin. Wish I was just like you.

Yep, I'm Chinese-Canadian. The picture was taken with a cell phone camera, so that's why it's not good quality.

I have a question: is there a dimension limit of the photos we add to our album?I mean I can add big pictures? How many pictures can we add?

And well I think you're of Asian nationality or I'm not seeing well because the picture is a little blurred?

Yes, I'm in Canada, so you're not dreaming, LOL.

Yeah, I just uploaded it today. Do you have any pictures?

I'm good. How are you?

Rubens at his best comes close (such as in his portraits of his first wife, his children, Susanna Fourment...) but his portraits are quite often the formal presentation of the individual... and quite often the individuals in question are the equivalent of the celebrity: the rich and powerful and good looking. he doesn't dig as deeply behind the mask as Rembrandt does... or as Goya, for that matter, in some of his royal portraits.

Rembrandt is indeed an amazing artist... and one nearly impossible to put your finger on. I can largely analyze a great deal of what is going on in other artists: Michelangelo, Rubens, Ingres, Vermeer... I understand the mechanics... but Rembrandt is something altogether different. Like Mozart he's deceptively simple... nothing apparently complex going on formally... but his work is incredibly profound... deeply emotional. Like Shakespeare he is unmatched in his ability to invent human characters that we, the audience, can relate to... who seem more real than most people we know in real life. Michelangelo is unquestionably the greater artist, but his figures are not individual human personalities as they are with Rembrandt... rather, they are superhuman beings... Gods... abstract expressions of emotions and longings.

Happy Valentines Day to you my dear. Mwah to you.