Experimenteerdrift

Get started yourself!

In the middle of this exhibition, you can make a drawing yourself. Try out different types of paper and drawing materials. Just like the artists around you – each and every one a source of inspiration.

Experiment with trees

If Rembrandt had a motto, it was surely working 'from life'. That is, looking closely at how things look. In this way, he could very convincingly depict the trees by a row of farmhouses, with a very gnarled tree trunk in the foreground. But Rembrandt was certainly not the only one with a keen power of observation. In the exhibition, you see prints by artists from the 17th to the 20th century, all of whom have given their own twist to the same subject. You see a tree in every print, and yet it is never the same.

Experiment with Rembrandt

Tronies were very popular in the 17th century. They are portraits of models that depict a type or emotion. Rembrandt was masterful at creating tronies. Two of them hang here. Contemporary artist Glenn Brown (1966) used Rembrandt's tronies as the basis for his own series. On his iPad, he distorted Rembrandt's artworks into a wild interplay of lines. He then made an etching of the new tronie. Finally, he layered two etchings on top of each other and made the prints you see in the exhibition.