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Serious Spontaneity. Hals's spontaneity has appealed to modern artists. Van Gogh praised "his way of stating the subject right away at one sweep." Manet hailed Hals's ability "to set down, at the first stroke, what one sees." Even the U.S. abstract expressionists found justification for their pure play of paint in Hals's practice of working without preliminary drawings...
...Brilliance of His Brushes. Art as an expression of alienation from society is a concept that Manet would have found ridiculous. He thoroughly enjoyed the life of the race track and cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
Precision and finish were the qualities prized by the academicians. Manet settled for a painting "if it only presents a suitable arrangement of patches." And the impressionists who followed him agreed. He could become as engrossed in still lifes as in a tumultuous battle scene, investing neither in sentimentality nor romantic bravura. He sought to bring to nature only the brilliance of his brushes. By so doing, he brought a new realization of art as form rather than commentary, a fundamental concept that artists still attempt to follow to this...
...critic who gave the Manet show highest marks was the New York Times's John Canaday, who then went on to blast New York as a "cultural backwater" because the show would not be seen at any of its museums...
...Manet show will be seen only at the Art Institute of Chicago before being disassembled and sent back to the lenders. Among other major exhibitions slated to bypass New York is Chicago's "Treasures from Poland," on loan from the Polish government, which will go only to Philadelphia and Ottawa. "The Age of Rembrandt," which includes paintings from major Netherlands museums that may never again be allowed abroad, will be seen only in San Francisco, Toledo and Boston. Equally rare is Cleveland's "Treasures from Medieval Art," which includes a host of objects never seen outside France before...