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From Rembrandt to IBM Cloud SRE professional certificate — This is gold!
Take a good look at this painting. What is the first thing you see — the one thing that really captures the full attention of your eye?
If you’re like me, it’s probably the golden helmet. It’s like looking directly into a bright source of light, then closing your eyes while the ghost image still haunts you under your closed eyelids. The man wearing the helmet is shadowed by it. The painter tells us the helmet is the true subject of this painting, not the man — he is somewhat meaningless.
Who created this masterpiece? no one really knows, but art historians believe it was painted by Rembrandt, so I decided to side with them…
This is gold (or is it really?)
The most interesting fact about this painting, beside the fact that no gold was used in its making, is that the “gold” was painted with three very “boring” and ordinary colors: black, ocher and grey(!). Yep. The shiny and realistic gold, that almost forces your eyes to squint, is created out of colors you probably would never have guessed.
This painting always reminds me that creation of something truly brilliant doesn’t require fancy resources. All you need is great talent, technique, and skills.
