Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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lowing interesting hint regard to what
effect his early environment may have had
on the work of Rembrandt, the miller's son:
"That he was a miller's son, this we know.
With this fact in mind let any one, if he have
opportunity, enter one of the huge windmills
for the grinding of grain in any province of the
Netherlands. Let him note the effect of the
light striking into the dim, high interior from
the wide doorway. Notice the shaft of sun-
shine which, entering by some narrow aperture
high up near the second story, falls athwart the
curious half-light and renders the atmosphere,
charged with flour-dust, luminous. The light
is intensified itself by the narrow opening, and
intensifies the illumined shadow on beam and
rafter. Let him mount the long ladder to the
second story, and as he descends, note the
luminosity of the interior as seen from above.
He will, seeing this, realize for the first time,
that an impressionable small boy, a miller's
son, some three hundred years ago, with an
artist-soul just ready to germinate within him,
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Author of "On the Open Road." By permission of
T. Y. Crowell & Company.

must have been much in his father's mill, and
the sensitive brain-films have unconsciously
received impressions of light and its propertie
swhich were developed later in his art with such
an intense power of permanence that we of
to-day can but marvel.
The truth of this was brought home to me
one day as I stood within the great, dim
interior of a grain mill on one of the islands of
Zeeland. I saw about me, almost, it seemed
to me, clairvoyantly for the moment, an early
source of Rembrandt's psychology of light; for
it is that. Other artists deal with its physi-
ology; Rembrandt alone with the soul of it.
Therein lies his apartness.

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To New Englanders no town of Holland
should hold such interest as quaint old Leyden,
where in the Church of St. Peter, John Robin-
son lies buried; and yet, as Miss Waller point
sout, no memorial erected by the descendants

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