Art in Films

Born from the desire to explore the visual dialogue between artworks and films.

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Edward Hopper. Nighthawks. 1942.

Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)

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A video essay on the significance of paintings within movies.

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thank you, @xescie!

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Carol, dir. Todd Haynes (2015) // Automat, by Edward Hopper (1927)

“Haynes makes unhappiness beautiful. It makes sense that he’s a fan of Edward Hopper, whose paintings inform this film profoundly. In fact, it’s an Edward Hopper picture as surely as Far From Heaven was a Douglas Sirk picture: think of the diners, the angular rooftops, those forlorn people sitting on the edges of beds.” The Telegraph

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Art in Cinema (Television): Henry Wallis (“The Death of Chatterton”, 1856) in Endeavour: “Ride” (2016)

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Film/Art

Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) and its influences: The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli, 1791; Death and the Woodcutter by Jean-Francois Millet, 1859; Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1861

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Art in Cinema: Caspar David Friedrich (“The Abbey in the Oakwood”, 1809) in The Revenant (2015)

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Shirley Temple in Art History. Scenes from Curly Top, 1935.

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Forest of Birch Trees (oil on canvas, c. 1903) / Gustav Klimt

Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) / 1962 / dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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At the beginning of The Shining, when Jack calls Wendy to tell her he got the job as winter caretaker of the Overlook, she sits in front of a painting of a woman holding a dog. The painting is titled “Woman and Terrier” (1963) by Canadian artist Alex Colville.

Colville’s paintings are often described as having a subtly unsettling quality, which is perhaps why Kubrick chose to feature them in The Shining.

Colville died in 2013 at the age of 92. After his passing, his son, Graham, remarked:

“I must say, I (felt) slight surprise when I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining and I suddenly realised my father’s paintings were in the background in numerous scenes. They were implanted in that film as almost subliminal messages.“

Another of Colville’s paintings can be seen in the same Boulder apartment, and yet another can be seen at the Overlook, near the end of the film. A fourth hangs in Room 237.

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#021 — Art x Film

Frida (2002) - Julie Taymor. Inspiration from paintings:

La columna rota (1944)

Autorretrato con pelo corto (1940)

El sueño (1940)

Las dos Fridas (1939)

Frida y Diego Rivera (1931)

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There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson

Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea (1836) - Jean-Hyppolite Flandrin

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Hannibal Art Meme

↳ Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009)

In 1945 Wyeth’s father was killed in a railway accident and this tragedy gave greater emphasis to the introspective, melancholy strain developing in Wyeth’s work. … [Otherwise] Wyeth’s style and subject-matter changed little throughout his career, and the restrained earth colours that characterized his earlier work were continued in later paintings such as Ring Road (1985; priv. col., see 1987 exh. cat., p. 147). His work was enormously popular in the USA, and as a mark of this he was given a large retrospective in 1976 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the first time a living American artist had been accorded such an honour. With the critics, however, his reputation was less secure, largely because his style and subject-matter fell outside the avant-garde developments of American art. Travelling very little, he spent his life almost entirely in the Maine and Pennsylvania regions of the USA. To many his accessible paintings evoke some mythical rural past, striking a powerful chord in the American psyche. Like Dürer, whom he greatly admired, he placed great emphasis on observation, and his detailed style reflects this. (x) (x) (x) (x)

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Nastya Ptichek

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Top: L’Angélus by Jean-François Millet, 1857-1859.

Bottom: Belle de Jour by Luis Buñuel, 1967.

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Hitchcock Hopper

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Not exactly, but related. 

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Top: Joanna the Mad, 1877. By Francisco Pradilla Ortiz.  Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Bottom: Locura de Amor, 1948. dir. Juan de Orduña

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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)