current emmerdal advert based on famous painting?

[ermintrude35]

...on the tv advert for emmerdale with the tag line "it's anything but quiet in the country" featuring all the cast members, can anyone please tell me which famous painting and by which artist the ad composition is based on....it's not the last supper, though i have had suggestions of "the hellfire club" I'm not entierly satisfied with that suggestion....

[DotH]

well the 'It's far from the Quiet Country' ad campaign is apparently up for an award and the idea is lifted from Rembrandt again, only apparently.

[shaneystar2]

It looks like something William Hogarth would have done
something like this
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2004/12/31/hog arth38.JPG

[shaneystar2]

But it says here
The Emmerdale promotion is based on the idea of a modern masterpiece. The creative aims to capture the essence of the soap�s characters as well as the drama of the show in an entertaining tableaux of images. It will run with the tagline �It�s far from quiet in the country� and features many of Emmerdale�s key characters in a slow motion scene.
http://www.thinkbox.tv/server.php?show=ConWebD oc.283

[Peter Pedant]

I agree I think it is based on Rembrandt
Remember the whole idea of a successful campaign is to get people discussing it.

There were societies in 1630s Amsterdam who would go out and have a good time AND had money, so a lot of them commissioned group portraits, of themselves in tableaux.

and the Emmerdale ad is like that,
which I suppose iswhy it looks like a Rembrandt. Is there an eye somewhere in it ?

There is a little too much sex -shadrack is pawing a womens leg I think....

PP

[wallyboots]

It certainly looks very Flemish, A bit Jan Steen. More than likely Rembrandt though. I'm thinking that the reference to 'a modern masterpiece' is a vane attempt at making Emmerdale sound better than it is, not to the picture it parodies.