The Artist Project: Roland Flexner

Artist Roland Flexner reflects on Jacques de Gheyn II's Vanitas Still Life in this episode of The Artist Project.

June 22, 2015

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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I think of it as a film noir."

Artist Roland Flexner reflects on Jacques de Gheyn II's "Vanitas Still Life" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Roland Flexner, born in France in 1944, is an American artist who specializes in drawings.

Roland Flexner (French, born 1944)

Untitled, 2007

Sumi ink on paper; 5 1/2 × 7 in. (14 ×17.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Stephen and Nan Swid Gift, 2010 (2010.434) © Roland Flexner

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