After Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch master Frans Hals gets a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum
Briefly

The people, they often laugh, and that's very remarkable in the 17th century that they smile or even laugh, which was hardly done.
He does this loose brushstroke, ... because it belongs to the avant-garde of European art at this moment. But it is also functional. It ... suggests a kind of movement. And he goes further than all the others in aspiring to show that movement.
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