The Story of Dutch Painting
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The next picture, Officers of the Archers of St.
George, is dated 1639, six years later. It is conspicu- ously inferior not only to the masterpiece (that were excusable), but to all the preceding works. It repre- sents a f alUng off not so much in actual craftsmanship as in artistic moraUty. The artist appears to have been satisfied to do less well than he could; to do, in fact, as FRANS HALS little as he might. He has saved himself expenditure of invention in the composition by stringing the f...igures out in a line across the front, and raising another line of figiu'es behind them; this having been the niggard, un- imaginative arrangement of the older corporation pic- tures, from which his other work had presented so happy a departure. Correspondingly the heads, while forcible in characterization, are lacking in luminosity, and the fabrics are without vivacity. The general eflFect is stqckish; the breath of hfe and of art, as Hals could suggest both, is absent.
Nor in the next picture, dated two years later, the Regents of the Hospital of St.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The next picture, Officers of the Archers of St.
George, is dated 1639, six years later. It is conspicu- ously inferior not only to the masterpiece (that were excusable), but to all the preceding works. It repre- sents a f alUng off not so much in actual craftsmanship as in artistic moraUty. The artist appears to have been satisfied to do less well than he could; to do, in fact, as FRANS HALS little as he might. He has saved himself expenditure of invention in the composition by stringing the f...igures out in a line across the front, and raising another line of figiu'es behind them; this having been the niggard, un- imaginative arrangement of the older corporation pic- tures, from which his other work had presented so happy a departure. Correspondingly the heads, while forcible in characterization, are lacking in luminosity, and the fabrics are without vivacity. The general eflFect is stqckish; the breath of hfe and of art, as Hals could suggest both, is absent.
Nor in the next picture, dated two years later, the Regents of the Hospital of St.
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