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The Washington Post | December 24, 2006 | Copyright

Respectable, responsible museum-goers may find this lout offensive. They're supposed to.

His breath stinks. Clearly he's been drinking. His eyes are bleary. Nyah-nyah is his message. His manners are the worst. Also he's dangerous. Note the knife.

"Youth Making a Face" at the National Gallery of Art is the size of a postcard. The Flemish artist Adriaen Brouwer painted it around 1635. He liked discomfiting the smug.

Brouwer (1605/1606-1638) was famously messy.

Once, after he'd been asked to dress well for once for a wedding, he seized a pair of pies and smeared them all over his new clothes, ...

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