Frans Hals: Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum honours the Master of Laughter in new exhibition

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After celebrated solo exhibitions of Vermeer and Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum is set to unveil a new exhibition dedicated to the joyous painting of Frans Hals.

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00:10 He's not a sober artist.

00:27 The people, they often laugh, and that's very remarkable in the 17th century.

00:33 We nowadays, we always laugh, but it was out of the question that you should

00:38 show your teeth, that's against every etiquette.

00:43 So that he shows them is very remarkable.

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00:49 >> There's three kind of great painters of 17th century Dutch art, Rembrandt,

00:54 Vermeer, we've shown, and now Frans Hals.

00:57 They all work in the same medium, oil paint on canvas,

01:03 but they do something completely different with it.

01:07 With Rembrandt, it's emotion and the human condition.

01:11 With Vermeer, it's stillness.

01:14 And with Frans Hals, it's movement and it's joy.

01:18 And he was the first to discover this.

01:21 If you really have a brush stroke that's so broad, and he takes it to an extreme,

01:26 it's so free, you get movement in the painting itself,

01:30 by the way you use your material.

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