{"id":22674,"date":"2024-02-12T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/radvilu-rumu-dailes-muziejus\/parodos\/a-room-of-the-masterpiece-frans-halss-evangelists-from-the-odessa-museum-of-western-and-eastern-art\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:02:08","slug":"a-room-of-the-masterpiece-frans-halss-evangelists-from-the-odessa-museum-of-western-and-eastern-art","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/exhibitions\/a-room-of-the-masterpiece-frans-halss-evangelists-from-the-odessa-museum-of-western-and-eastern-art\/","title":{"rendered":"A Room of the Masterpiece. Frans Hals’s Evangelists from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Frans Hals. St Luke. Circa 1625. Oil on canvas. <\/span><\/span>Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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Frans Hals. St <\/span>Mat<\/span>t<\/span>hew<\/span>. Circa 1625. Oil on canvas. <\/span><\/span>Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Imagine a situation where you have the opportunity to meet someone with an incredibly interesting, colourful background and a unique education, but you only have… twelve seconds. In this time, they must introduce themselves, tell you a little about themselves and, most importantly, you must make as deep a connection with them as possible.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What can be achieved in this amount of time?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018My name is Frans, I\u2019m a painter from Antwerp, but I really like Harlem and its peo…\u2019, and this is where the communication has to stop. What a frustrating experience and what an infinitely strange, seemingly contrived circumstance!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it is not entirely a fantasy. A study by sociologists has shown that visitors at museum exhibitions spend an average of 12\u201315 seconds on each artwork. Just two or three seconds go by glancing at the work itself, and the other ten or so are used to quickly study the contents of its label \u2013 the artist, title, technique, country, and year. Well, perhaps the more favoured works receive a little more time \u2013 about 20\u201330 seconds. My colleagues and I have seen cases where, in a room full of great works from the Baroque period, visitors are just flying through the exhibits, running in, taking a quick look around, then running along. In 30 seconds, they have seen not just one work, but the whole room!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Running is the destiny of our age \u2013 English sociologist Anthony Giddens warned us of a \u2018runaway world\u2019 back at the end of the last millennium, even before smart devices and social networks existed. Is it indeed possible to stop running and scrolling, even when stopping seems absolutely necessary?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Gintar\u0117 Grig\u0117nait\u0117<\/p><\/div>\n

The Lithuanian National Museum of Art offers you, dear visitors, a unique opportunity to meet a work of art under special conditions \u2013 in the <\/span>Room of a Masterpiece <\/span><\/i>(which we initially even thought of calling \u2018The One-Artwork Theatre\u2019), designed for this purpose by a large creative team over a long period of time, where the work of art is given an opportunity to present itself and give a performance, not unlike an actor, <\/span>personally<\/span><\/i> to a single visitor<\/span><\/i>. To gently take the dear viewer by the hand and guide them out of the bustling street of burdens and never-ending daily tasks, out of the space of bad, horrifying news, and into the space of the slow, calmly-paced, yet rich, intellectually stimulating, and slightly magical art experience. There is no museum space like this anywhere in the world \u2013 it is an entirely Lithuanian creation. To maintain the mystery and the element of surprise, we will refrain from saying anything more about what awaits you in the <\/span>Room of a Masterpiece<\/span><\/i>, but we have no doubts that your experience will be unforgettable.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was as if fate itself suggested the candidate for the first masterpiece presentation \u2013 one of the most famous painters of all time, the Dutch Golden Age genius Frans Hals and his <\/span>Evangelists<\/span><\/i>. We had long thought of asking our dear colleagues from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art to lend us these works, but Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine changed everything \u2013 we were no longer borrowing but actually evacuating the works from a war zone. We are infinitely grateful that the museum\u2019s director, Ihor Poronyk, and his colleagues trusted us, handing these priceless masterpieces into the temporary care of our museum. At the same time, it became a unique opportunity for the Lithuanian public and visitors to Lithuania to see the works of Frans Hals, one of the greatest portraitists of all time, in a very up-close, solitary setting.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop for a moment. An important experience awaits you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Director General of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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