There are lots of weaknesses as well as strengths: its landscape has none of the intensity of those painted by his own hand, nor could you seriously set this Madonna's face alongside that of the Mona Lisa for quality.
Ships and storms were all the rage in Dutch Golden Age art, but here Rembrandt shows his originality by raising a "genre" scene to the heightened intensity of history painting.
Directly rooted in everyday life ("cut with the kitchen knife") and happy to be part of the mix of media images the modern world pumps out, it nevertheless has the intensity of an abstract painting.
At Ditwah, a toothpaste-coloured palm-fringed lagoon, where juvenile stingrays the size of ping-pong bats made for watchful paddling, we ate kingfish and watched the sky catch fire with the intensity of a Renaissance painting.
Simpson's best poems in this mode offer the quiet, disconcerting intensity of a good Hopper painting.
Presented in one of Chelsea's cleanest, airiest spaces, it maximizes the bracing physicality and phenomenological intensity of Ms. Truitt's painted-wood sculptures.
If Lievens's portrait, for all its refinement, lacks a level of intensity, that painting, along with his "Head of an Old Woman (Rembrandt's Mother)," demonstrates that Rembrandt worked beside a master of surface elegance, an artist whose paintings collectors confused with Rembrandt's as early as 1633.
Although the intensity of emitted photons from ML paint has been reduced as the number of repetitive stress cycles increased, however, the deterioration of ML intensity with the variation of additive stress cycle was less than 5% in the cases of high cycle failure.
But they lack the intensity and inventive paint handling of the paintings of the 1950s and '60s, which show Von Bruenchenhein unbound.
The duration and intensity of Judd's devotion to painting is not well known.
