Plates & Chopsticks - New Dutch style

[Manfred M]

The 16th - 18th Century Dutch still life painter worked to a very specific set of rules in the way the a picture had to be assembled. After the Golden Age of Dutch painting was replaced by the Impressionists, the classic still life changed forever.

"New Dutch" takes some of the elements from the classic approach but uses them in a stripped down, simplified manner. This image is one of my attempts at "New Dutch". The round edges that are broken by a straight line is still there, but the "pivot point", the table edge and the material hanging over the edge of the table are gone.



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The 16th - 18th Century Dutch still life painter worked to a very specific set of rules in the way the a picture had to be assembled.

"New Dutch" takes some of the elements from the classic approach but uses them in a stripped down, simplified manner. This image is one of my attempts at "New Dutch". The round edges that are broken by a straight line is still there, but the "pivot point", the table edge and the material hanging over the edge of the table are gone.

Being less knowledgeable about Art, I had to look it up:

https://www.artspace.com/magazine/ar...ll-lives-56298

Lots of overhanging stuff in the first two pics!

[Manfred M]

Being less knowledgeable about Art, I had to look it up:

https://www.artspace.com/magazine/ar...ll-lives-56298

Lots of overhanging stuff in the first two pics!

The article explains the "Golden Age" or classical Dutch, rather than the New Dutch. If you look at the work of Dutch photographer Tineke Stoffels, she works in Old Dutch, New Dutch and is also heavily influenced by the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi. Some of her Modern Dutch work can be seen here:

https://tinekestoffels.eu/terroir

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The article explains the "Golden Age" or classical Dutch, rather than the New Dutch. If you look at the work of Dutch photographer Tineke Stoffels, she works in Old Dutch, New Dutch and is also heavily influenced by the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi. Some of her Modern Dutch work can be seen here:

https://tinekestoffels.eu/terroir

Interesting back story to your image creation Manfred. In one of the images in the link that Ted posted there is a moth/butterfly. In the link you posted Tineke has a creature in every image, why? I'm not sure if it is a signature object/statement.
Thanks for the learning from the backstory Manfred


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[Manfred M]

Interesting back story to your image creation Manfred. In one of the images in the link that Ted posted there is a moth/butterfly. In the link you posted Tineke has a creature in every image, why? I'm not sure if it is a signature object/statement.
Thanks for the learning from the backstory Manfred


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I am by no means particularly knowledgeable about the nuances of the symbolism of the Old Dutch still life genre. It seems to have its origins with the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands. The Protestant churches had no use for the saints and the Virgin Mary, so a whole new art form with its own symbols reflecting the Protestant values had to be invented,

I found this brief article to be fairly enlightening: https://www.thecollector.com/still-l...hat-they-mean/

[Manfred M]

I went back and found another shot that I feel is stronger...

[pschlute]

Prefer this one. Brighter