As a young man, Hals witnessed the creation of a free, Protestant Dutch Republic the small, mercantile nation quickly became one of Europes most prosperous centers of trade. Hals was the leading portrait painter in the Dutch city of Haarlem (near Amsterdam) during the period following the Reformation. Halss work had a great influence on Modern artists of the 19th century the realism, boldness and immediacy of his style served as inspiration to painters such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh. Combining realism with his unique technique of loose brushstrokes, Halss portraits are startlingly direct they give the impression of being in the presence of another living and breathing human being while also reflecting the act of painting. ∿rans Hals was a remarkable artistic innovator and I am thrilled that we will be able to focus on his real subject: the act of painting itself.īefore Frans Hals (1582/83≡666), few artists had managed to capture the spontaneity of life in paint. While at first glance the two portraits we will be showing may look more similar than different, this exhibition will encourage and empower visitors to spend time looking closely at Halss distinctive virtuoso handling of paint and see how much his technique evolved over the decade of the 1630s, said Domercq. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art, and the exhibition project is included in free general admission. On view February 23October 11, 2020, Frans Hals: Detecting a Decade is curated by Julien Domercq, the DMAs Lillian and James H. Halss revolutionary technique of loose and animated brushwork was extremely influential on subsequent generations of artists and his work will resonate particularly well with other parts of the collection of our encyclopedic museum. Agustín Arteaga, the DMAs Eugene McDermott Director. ∻uilding on the success of our focus exhibition on Caravaggio last summer, we are delighted to further our ongoing commitment to revive the display of Old Master European Art at the DMA by bringing these two extraordinary portraits by Frans Hals to Dallas, said Dr. They are shown side-by-side for the first time in the DMA presentation. On loan to the DMA from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and a private collection, the two works depicting the same sitter are perhaps unique for the artists oeuvre, as he rarely painted the same subject twice. Olycancreated about a decade apart and nearly 400 years agodemonstrate the evolution of his technique at the highest point of his career. Recognized for painting character through virtuosic, loose, and animated brushwork, Hals is considered to be the third prominent painter of the Dutch Baroque era along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. This year, visitors to the Dallas Museum of Art have the rare opportunity to see two paintings that showcase the revolutionary technique of Frans Hals, the first great portraitist of 17th century Holland.
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