Text/Zheng Xin'an
Flipping through the biography of a Western oil painting master, a slightly unfamiliar name jumped into the eye, his name was Frans Hals. The name is unfamiliar, but the painting is often seen, this is "Gypsy Girl". This painting is widely circulated, and almost all the albums of the history of Western oil painting have an introduction, which is a familiar stranger.
Frans Hals was the founder of the Dutch school of painting in the 17th century and one of the most outstanding portrait masters. His paintings are all about people and things around him, from officers and guild directors to citizens, fishermen, musicians, children and even tramps. Hals painted familiar life of ordinary people, showing the life of the Dutch people in the first half of the 17th century. The work of Frans Hals is not too political or evental. Painting does not express opinions, only aesthetic attitudes, which is the purity of the artists of that era.
The masterpiece "Gypsy Girl" shows a girl's low eyebrows and a smile, the painter's brushstrokes are relaxed and natural, the black hair flutters at will, and the red face and the lips of the micro-opening are free and unrestrained. At the detail of the neckline strap, the pleated white shirt and the rough red skirt are drawn lightly and naturally.
In the painting, the moment the woman looks back, all the psychology of casualness, freedom, carefreeness, sincerity and kindness is drawn, giving the characters free and spicy, free and independent temperament, the clothes are particularly well painted, and the subtle changes in light and color can be seen. Hals's painting method, that is, it is not very delicate and not very unrestrained, thick and thin, fine and coarse, very attractive painting method.
Historians call Hals's creation, marking the peak of the development of european realist portraiture, is the founder of realist portraiture and genre painting in the history of Dutch art. His oil painting breaks through the shackles of traditional painting methods, the brush is free, the colors are simple and bright, and it has great inspiration for the improvement of later European painting techniques.
Hals mainly paints portraits, with a pen that is brisk and agile, free-flowing, with obvious brush strokes, giving the impression of a wave, and the work is as vivid as a sketch. Hals's short, pulsating brushstrokes, depicting drunken men, fluffy curls, crooked hats, and cheerful scenes could not have been more apt. He uses free and accurate brushstrokes to shape the body, so that the human form in the painting has both gods and gods, and becomes a typical character with character. He was not used to not typing, preferring to paint directly on canvas, and almost all oil painters now do so.
Frans hals (1580-1666), a representative of early Dutch art, is said to have been impoverished throughout his life, earning an erratic income from painting portraits. Frans Hals was also an alcoholic, born with a flamboyant and optimistic personality, and was a personality painter.
There are not many such painters now, and I miss him a lot.
His representative works include The Gypsy Girl, The Smiling Riding Dirt (1628), The Female Caretaker of the Harlem Nursing Home, and The Newlywed Couple (1621).
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