Early Video Paintings
The pilot projects for Living Paintings focused mainly on still lives . The Landscape Experiments merge popular images from 17th-century landscape paintings with refined video images from similar perspectives. The new realism in painting pioneered in that era is alternated with minimalist contemporary landscape shots, with subtle changes of light. In a similar way, Still Life is a modern interpretation with a twist of the classic still life with a basket of bread: from memento mori to carpe diem.
Together with producers Derk-Jan Warrink and Constant van Panhuys, who were also involved in the development of the still lives, a first mark towards the present Framing Vermeer and Moving Mesdag was made with a video installation of Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, Magritte's Man with the Four Hands and Dali's Basket of Bread.
Together with producers Derk-Jan Warrink and Constant van Panhuys, who were also involved in the development of the still lives, a first mark towards the present Framing Vermeer and Moving Mesdag was made with a video installation of Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, Magritte's Man with the Four Hands and Dali's Basket of Bread.