Quotation
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! - Max Liebermann
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Biographical
Frans Hals (born 1580 in Antwerp, died in 1666) was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits. Frans Hals changed the face of portraiture for centuries to come. His form of painting revealed in the subject both a realistic depiction of the subject and an insight into the psyche of the subject. The portraits capture the subject in a split-second moment, what you would see of the person in an everyday occurrence. The portrayal of his subjects are also comical.
The characters are no longer in a dignified, urbane pose, but instead they are informal and caught in the picture without knowing it. In group portraits, such as the Archers of St. Hadrian, Hals captures each character in a different manner. The faces are not idealized and clearly distinguishable, and their personalities can be revealed in the variety of poses and physiognomy. He was a Baroque painter, with intimate realism and a radical apporach. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Frans Hals.]
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