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This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter
Frans Hals's highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans
Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and,
together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent
seventeenth-century Dutch artists. Published to coincide with the
Wallace Collection's exhibition of the same name, Frans Hals: The
Male Portrait explores the artist's highly innovative approach to
male portraiture, from the beginning of his career in the 1610s
until the end of his life in 1666. Through pose, expression and
virtuosic painterly technique, Hals revolutionised the male
portrait into something entirely new and fresh, capturing and
revealing his sitters' characters like no one else before him. This
book includes the first in-depth study of Hals's great masterpiece,
The Laughing Cavalier, from 1624. The extravagantly dressed young
man, confidently posed with his left arm akimbo in the extreme
foreground of the picture and seemingly penetrating into the
viewer's space, has been charming audiences for over a century.
Richly illustrated, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait situates The
Laughing Cavalier within the artist's larger oeuvre and
demonstrates how, at a relatively early point in his career, Hals
was able to achieve this great masterpiece.
Painting "without color" has long held a fascination for artists.
In this striking and original book, the authors explore how and why
artists from the 15th century to the present have chosen to paint
in black, white, and shades of gray. Sometimes artists used trompe
l'oeil monochromatic effects to represent other media, such as
sculpture, prints, or photography; others have consciously limited
their palette as a means of re-focusing the viewer's attention,
while contemporary artists such as Gerhard Richter and Bridget
Riley have often found inspiration in pushing black and white to
its limits, and in new directions. The authors trace the history of
this art form, from the symbolism of sacred images in medieval
church ritual - epitomized in Netherlandish painting from the 15th
century onwards by Hans Memling and Jan van Eyck - to the modern
era and the work of artists such as Josef Albers and Ellsworth
Kelly. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery, London
(10/30/17-02/18/18) Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
(03/21/18-07/15/18)
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