Frans Hals
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Frans Hals
He painted many individual portraits (including The Laughing Cavalier and Gypsy Girl) and many group portraits.
Hals used bold and loose brush strokes in his paintings which helped give them a feeling of liveliness and gaiety.
Slideshow of Frans Hals Paintings
Dutch video - but definitely worth watching even if you don't understand Dutch!
The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals: A Novel
The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals: A Novel
Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 06/01/2012)
I am not a huge fan of historical fiction, but this was a whole lot of fun! Frans Hals was a 17th century Dutch painter, a contemporary of Rembrandt and Vermeer. His alleged diaries are discovered buried in a farm in upstate NY. Peter, a perpetual and therefore somewhat flaky graduate student, fluent in Dutch, is hired to translate them. The book alternates from Hals' crazy life to Peter's crazy life.
I loved Hals, and throughout the book Peter falls for him too and takes a very personal and emotional interest on the authenticity of the diaries. The book can almost be categorized as a "thriller" because there is definitively a sense of mystery and urgency in it.
The Laughing Cavalier (by Frans Hals)
Frans Hals (article)
Source: Wikipedia
Gypsy Girl (by Frans Hals)
Latest News on Frans Hals
Fool Playing Lute (by Frans Hals)
The Style of Frans Hals
"Some of his work is considered the most moving portraits ever painted. ... Hals developed a style that combined the robustness and breadth of Ruben's paintings with dramatic movement from the Utrecht school and Caravaggio. The paintings radiated spontaneity and showed dashing brush strokes... No drawings by him are known so it is presumed that he worked straight on to the canvas. He evolved a technique that was close to impressionism."
-- Martin Voster
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Malle Babbe (by Frans Hals) (detail)
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Feb 11, 2010 @ 10:29 am | delete
- A Painting attributed to Frans Hals, Malle Babbe will be up for auction at O'Gallerie Auctions, Portland, Oregon. March 29, 30 & 31 Spring Premiere Estate & Collection Auction. Visit www.ogallerie.com
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spirituality Nov 23, 2009 @ 2:40 am | delete
- Great lens, but you knew that :) Just wanted to remind you that this is featured on the The Netherlands Headquarters
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Netherlands
It's now transformed into a lensography and I would love it if you could show your appreciation by featuring it here, or lensrolling it or something.
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- Great lens - you're invited to submit this to the http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Netherlands Netherlands group here on squidoo.
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d-artist Apr 4, 2009 @ 6:39 am | delete
- I have always been interested with Dutch and Flemish style of painting, especially their glazing methods...5*
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