{"id":10853,"date":"2017-11-10T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klohecat.com\/wvanart\/the-art-of-laughter-humour-in-the-golden-age-opens-at-the-frans-hals-museum\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:11:22","slug":"the-art-of-laughter-humour-in-the-golden-age-opens-at-the-frans-hals-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klohecat.com\/wvanart\/the-art-of-laughter-humour-in-the-golden-age-opens-at-the-frans-hals-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The Art of Laughter: Humour in the Golden Age&#039; opens at the Frans Hals Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely have more humorous paintings been produced than in the Dutch Golden Age. Naughty children, stupid peasants, foolish dandies and befuddled drunks, quack doctors, pimps, procuresses, lazy maids and lusty ladies \u2013 they figure in large numbers in Golden Age masterpieces. The Art of Laughter: Humour in the Golden Age presents the first ever overview of humour in seventeenth-century painting. The exhibition runs from 11 November 2017 to 18 March 2018 in the Frans Hals Museum. Frans Hals is often called \u2018the master of the laugh\u2019. More than any other painter in the Golden Age, he was able to bring a vitality to his portraits that made it appear as if his models could just step out of the past into the present. Hals was one of the few painters in the seventeenth century who dared portray his figures \u2013 often common folk \u2013 with a hearty laugh and bared teeth. Merriment and jokes are prominent features in his genre paintings; arti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely have more humorous paintings been produced than in the Dutch Golden Age. 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