Painting of a mentally impaired elderly woman with an owl on her shoulder, executed in bold strokes but a narrow palette of browns and grays

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   Lew Perin (babelcarp@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 04:21:33 JST Lew Perin

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   Last time we were in Berlin, we drifted around many neighborhoods on foot and all the public transport modes, hardly hitting any of the normal touristic marks. This time we’re trying to make the most of the 3-day all-museum pass.

   Today we went to the astounding Frans Hals show at the Gemäldegalerie (painting gallery) of the Staatliche Museen. The show is big and well-annotated enough to show Hals’s aesthetic and ideological/intellectual daring in the settings where he could get away with it.