Word: rembrandt
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...already lived 18 years longer than Leonardo da Vinci and 22 years longer than Rembrandt. He bears the best-known name in 20th century art; yet he seeks an anonymous existence. At the age of 85, he amuses himself by taking masterpieces of the past, pulling them apart and reassembling them in his own style. Having invented or conquered style after style, he continues attacking the canvas with bull-like strength as if he were ready to invent yet another. He is, of course, Pablo Picasso, and last week in Paris he received homage by way of a vast retrospective...
...Rembrandt, after a successful early career, turned his back on his age; Hals was its constant mirror...
...Unlike Rembrandt, who often made his patrons subservient to his art, Hals rarely betrayed his sitters who wanted themselves painted as they fancied themselves. His Portrait of a Man with Crossed Arms (see opposite page) summarizes the cocksure spirit of his time...
Popularity & Paradoxes. The scanty details of Hals's life seem as boisterous as his art. He reportedly beat his first wife and wore out his second, having an aggregate of some dozen children. Like Rembrandt, he eventually went bankrupt, since, for all his subsequent popularity, he never during his life commanded the prices paid to Bartholomeus van der Heist, whose stiff portraiture was the rage...
...golden period with all its paradoxes is displayed in "The Age of Rembrandt," a traveling show of 107 paintings by 67 Dutch masters that broke all attendance records at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. The exhibition opens this week in the Toledo Museum of Art and eventually goes on to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. It has nine Rembrandts, including Norton Simon's Titus. Even against such competition, the seven Halses emerge as the hit of the show...