Don Gray
Art Essays, Art Criticism & Poems
Rembrandt Is Still Alive...A PoemIt occurred to me one day that Rembrandt is alive, alive as he ever was. The essence of mind and soul, his heart, response to life as present in his painting as ever in his body in the Amsterdam of old. Art is eternal, all life immortal through art, all feeling and philosophy, all spirit and yearning of the flesh, all poetry and poignancy of life, the timeless experience of the tragedy of life, the billions of human confrontations with beauty and ugliness, ultimate death, are seeds sown in eternal art that flower through ages, giving birth in our time, as in all others, to reconnection, like beads closely strung on an endless string, with all life ever lived before, all life yet to come; with all aspiration ever hoped in time now gone that found fruition or contempt on man's epic journey with nature and the gods. How glad I am that Rembrandt is alive today, a companion on this voyage through filth and stars, continuing to remark, in elevated terms, on the beauty and foreboding of earth, life and death, of heaven and hell. Copyright by Don Gray
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