Frans Hals – Gypsy Girl 1628-30
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Frans Hals – Malle Babbe 1630
Frans Hals Week at TechnoChitlins
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Click picture for a series of Frans Hals self-portraits
Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/;[1] Dutch: [ɦɑls]; c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who lived and worked inHaarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture.
Hals was born in 1582 or 1583 in Antwerp as the son of cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen (c.1542–1610) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck.[2] Like many, Hals’ parents fled during the Fall of Antwerp (1584–1585) from the Spanish Netherlands to Haarlem, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Hals studied under Flemish émigré Karel van Mander,[2][3] whose Mannerist influence, however, is barely noticeable in Hals’ work.
I’ve picked a selection of Hals’ portraits of the ‘not-so-noble’; I relate better to those folks. Enjoy!
I knew these guys, every one
John George Brown – The Gang
Apple of
John George Brown – The Cider Mill
Who sneaked a landscape in here?
John George Brown – On the Hudson
Brooms
John George Brown – Curling; A Scottish Game, at Central Park
Boy. Dog.
John George Brown – Mutual Admiration
You’re Doing It Wrong
Though I’m not convinced that staring intently at chubby amputee porn is going to do much for me, or will recalibrate my preferences, so hopelessly entrenched are my capitalistic, neoliberal tendencies. Readers are of course invited to try it anyway and report back on how it goes. I promise we won’t judge.
Oh, baby, baby, it’s a wild world…
Luncheon
John George Brown – The Picnic Basket – 1873
The Snake
Strategery’d
John George Brown – Cornered
Transfix
Onward
John George Brown – Crossing the Stream
