In
Rembrandt Reconstructed
, the artist and poet
Paul
takes eight works by Rembrandt (
Bathsheba at Her Bath, Belshazzar's Feast, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Danaë, The Night Watch, Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
and
The Prodigal Son in the Tavern
) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution" image of the painting. Through these eleven stages of resolution, attention is called to the question of "what constitutes adequate reproduction?"
In its manifold aspects,
can be viewed variously as a color study, as an examination of graphic reproduction, and as a work of visual poetry.
is part of the
Reconstructed
series of art books (
Bosch
,
Da Vinci
Vermeer
Monet
Renoir
Cézanne
Van Gogh
, and
Rousseau
).