Help me Identify a Dutch painting.

January 12th, 2009, 07:37 PM

At least, I think it's Dutch.
It's very much in the style,
from the skull to the very dark palette.

A friend of mine took a photo and forgot the artist.

Thank you so much!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daxdefr...57612453947379

John · January 13th, 2009, 01:40 AM

It is a take-off of the Dutch style, but those claw hands look too modern.

January 14th, 2009, 05:48 PM

See, I am slightly perplexed–
while many Dutch painters had the "momento mori"
concept and used skulls and skeletons in their imagery,
I wondered if one artist took it further and used the hands
as possibly the devil,
taking a man who has some odd and ritualistic looking items at that table.

Alternatively, you could be right–
this is just a modern someone making an odd image
in the Rembrandt/Manet style.

Anyone else, any insight?
I have been scouring the internet for a while now.

I know that this was exhibited in the Met in NYC,
July of 2007.

John · January 14th, 2009, 09:52 PM

Is it the Met or the Museum of Modern Art? I saw a lot of modern art in that Flickr gallery, and I was thinking MoMA. Anyway, to me it seems kind of like an art-historical joke, something by the likes of Jeff Koons or Mark Tansey or Komar & Melamid.

January 16th, 2009, 06:49 AM

Looking again, you are probably right–
I was told it was the Met, but then again this friend
doesn't often pay enough attention to things.
(Otherwise he might have recorded the name of this artist!)

I'll dig around on those names you listed.
You've been a big help,
and I'll post again if I make a break on this search.

Thanks!

January 12th, 2009, 07:37 PM	#1
Rogue Posts: n/a	Help me Identify a Dutch painting. At least, I think it's Dutch. It's very much in the style, from the skull to the very dark palette. A friend of mine took a photo and forgot the artist. Thank you so much! http://www.flickr.com/photos/daxdefr...57612453947379

January 14th, 2009, 05:48 PM	#3
Rogue Posts: n/a	Hmm... See, I am slightly perplexed– while many Dutch painters had the "momento mori" concept and used skulls and skeletons in their imagery, I wondered if one artist took it further and used the hands as possibly the devil, taking a man who has some odd and ritualistic looking items at that table. Alternatively, you could be right– this is just a modern someone making an odd image in the Rembrandt/Manet style. Anyone else, any insight? I have been scouring the internet for a while now. I know that this was exhibited in the Met in NYC, July of 2007.

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January 13th, 2009, 01:40 AM	#2
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	It is a take-off of the Dutch style, but those claw hands look too modern.

January 14th, 2009, 09:52 PM	#4
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	Is it the Met or the Museum of Modern Art? I saw a lot of modern art in that Flickr gallery, and I was thinking MoMA. Anyway, to me it seems kind of like an art-historical joke, something by the likes of Jeff Koons or Mark Tansey or Komar & Melamid.

January 16th, 2009, 06:49 AM	#5
Rogue Posts: n/a	Looking again, you are probably right– I was told it was the Met, but then again this friend doesn't often pay enough attention to things. (Otherwise he might have recorded the name of this artist!) I'll dig around on those names you listed. You've been a big help, and I'll post again if I make a break on this search. Thanks!