How to Study Pictures By Means of a Series of Comparisons of the Painters Motiv
How to Study Pictures By Means of a Series of Comparisons of the Painters Motiv
Charles Henry Caffin
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[ 200 ] MARIE LOUISE VOX TASSIS ANTHONY VAN DYCK LIECHTENSTEIN GALLERY, VIENNA rOHTlJ Air OK A WOMAN" NAIIONAI. (i. \l. L. I:i;V, LONDON KKAXS HALS VAN DYCK-HALS Tliis portrait, while self-sufficient as a record of a woman who actually lived, is more than that: it is a type of the race to which she helonged. It is a type, too, of the whole school of Dutch painting; so straight- forward, intimate, and sincere. INIoreover, such a mar- \el of painting! The Dutchmen of the seventeenth century, havi...ng abandoned the large field of decorative composition, set- tled down in the small space of their canvases to a per- fection of craftsmanshi]) that has never been surpassed in modern art. From the standpoint of pure painting, they formed a school of great painters; differing among themselves in motives and manner, but alike in being consummate masters of the brush. Hals set his figures in clear light, so that the modeling is not accomplished by shadows, but by the degree of light which each surface of the flesh or costume re- flected.
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