i've been trying to find more of the category i associate best of the badness with: where we encounter a portrait in which a strong resemblance between a living character and the painting implies some dark connection or creepiness or obsession
cousin Barnabas from England looks so much like his ancestor
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/2480x1400/public/wire/legacy/dark-shadows-jonathan-frid-barnabas-collins.jpg
― Brad C., Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
Terrible paintings, you say?
https://i.imgur.com/kQCNena.png
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
https://dailyscribbling.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hound1939-18.jpg
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
Vincent Price inherits The Haunted Palace from the guy in this portrait:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2QzN2Q1YWQtNjk1NC00ZTk2LWJkNDAtZjY1OTM1ZTY1YzlmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5NjM0NA@@._V1_.jpg
― Brad C., Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
The painting in 'Batteries Not Included' is a plot point (and also NSFW so I'm not posting it in this thread).
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
it’s not nsfw if it’s art, dahling
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
I was looking for a photo of the painting in the new Dracula, but got down a rabbit hole of fan art from which I've had to escape as quickly as possible
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/156500155779080396/
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
https://i.stack.imgur.com/NmYqV.jpgthe thread-starter
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41kat8xhScL.jpgI've always found the painting in Picard's ready room to be rather lame
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
I’m having a hard time finding link-able jpgs of the ones I’ve been thinking of, specifically the one of Vince Vaughn nude from Wedding Crashers and the portraits of Alan Rickman and Mos Def from the end of Something the Lord Made
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Tom Selleck film Daughters of Satan (1972) where he buys a painting for his wife, but one of the witches in the painting looks just like his wife
3rd image down:https://thedrunkenodyssey.com/2016/06/10/the-curator-of-schlock-132-daughters-of-satan/
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
I really liked The Devil's Candy but not so much for the paintinghttps://twocentspluschange.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/the-devils-candy.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
Does Lionel Ritchie’s sculpted likeness in “Hello” count?
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
absolutely
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
TOMMY: I like this one. One dog goes one way and the other goes the other.
MOTHER: One's going east, the other’s going west. So what?
TOMMY: And this guy's saying, "Whaddya want from me?" The guy's got a nice head of white hair. Beautiful. The dog it looks the same.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F5fY63LECJY/SOK9WDbQM3I/AAAAAAAAAgM/REmi-vVCl0M/s400/blog+Pileggi+two+dogs.jpg
― Ste, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
i shd have put it in the OP really but i didn't want to divert from the badness i'm after with such pure and unalloyed goodness
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
originally painted by nicholas pileggi's mum, fact fans
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
from this picture in national geographic!
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-HE3Gl-ctljc%2FUIJoPxDpUAI%2FAAAAAAAAAoI%2FG0BE6m8gjiQ%2Fs1600%2F284.JPG&f=1&nofb=1
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:20 (four years ago) link
To know beauty one must live with it is def the motto of this thread
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
https://live.staticflickr.com/3015/4557012334_83d28a8020.jpg
Not a painting, but Frederick Hart's Ex Nihilo sculpture. It plays a big role in The Devil's Advocate. It supposedly had a detrimental effect on Hart's health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WdWH53nsu8
Wikipedia:
In 1997, Washington National Cathedral asked Hart to join a lawsuit accusing a major motion picture company of copyright infringement for the appropriation of Ex Nihilo in the 1997 film The Devil's Advocate.[41] Over the course of the initial proceedings, "it soon became clear that the filmmakers had simply placed Ex Nihilo on a computer template, removed one figure, and then manipulated the figures."[42]However, Hart was cautious because in the 1990s plaintiffs in suits against major corporations were sometimes ridiculed in the media as part of public relations campaigns funded by the corporations themselves.[43] "During sessions at US Federal Court over the case that winter, the strain on Hart was wincingly visible."[44] As stress and mounting legal fees took a toll on Hart's health, in 1998, he suffered a stroke.[45]A federal judge ruled that unless a settlement could be reached the film's video release would be delayed until the case went to trial; the motion picture company then agreed to edit the scene for future releases, and to attach stickers to unedited videotapes to indicate they intended no relation between the sculpture in the film and Hart's work.[46]After his stroke, “Hart had pursued a rigorous regimen of physical therapy to regain the use of his left arm. He worked as arduously on his rehabilitation as he had on any work he ever created. Expecting to recover fully, he continued to sculpt almost every day… He was unaware that cancer was invading his body. Three weeks before he died, he became debilitated by pneumonia. It wasn’t until a couple of days before the end that the rapidly spreading cancer was discovered.”[45]Hart died on August 13, 1999, two days after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital diagnosed him with cancer.[15]
However, Hart was cautious because in the 1990s plaintiffs in suits against major corporations were sometimes ridiculed in the media as part of public relations campaigns funded by the corporations themselves.[43] "During sessions at US Federal Court over the case that winter, the strain on Hart was wincingly visible."[44] As stress and mounting legal fees took a toll on Hart's health, in 1998, he suffered a stroke.[45]
A federal judge ruled that unless a settlement could be reached the film's video release would be delayed until the case went to trial; the motion picture company then agreed to edit the scene for future releases, and to attach stickers to unedited videotapes to indicate they intended no relation between the sculpture in the film and Hart's work.[46]
After his stroke, “Hart had pursued a rigorous regimen of physical therapy to regain the use of his left arm. He worked as arduously on his rehabilitation as he had on any work he ever created. Expecting to recover fully, he continued to sculpt almost every day… He was unaware that cancer was invading his body. Three weeks before he died, he became debilitated by pneumonia. It wasn’t until a couple of days before the end that the rapidly spreading cancer was discovered.”[45]
Hart died on August 13, 1999, two days after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital diagnosed him with cancer.[15]
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
"to know beauty one must live with it" — akasha, queen of the damned
https://i.imgur.com/TUl3MBy.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
http://paintingsinmovies.com/ir/5/354.jpg
Bacon's 'Figure with Meat (Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef)' in Batman.
The painting is featured in a scene where the Joker and his henchmen destroy several works of art. However, the Joker spares Figure with Meat, saying, "I kind of like this one, Bob. Leave it.". Jack Nicholson as the Joker then sits down with Kim Basinger and has a discussion where he declares, "I am the world's first fully functioning homicidal artist."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
Alec Guinness in The Horse's Mouth
https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/06/05/02598970-092f-4fb0-bf12-5f6f5bbd0ddf/thumbnail/640x465/3ec21e269ecbed5efcac88b8193834fc/alec-guinness-the-horses-mouth.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
that haircut is a work of art in its own right
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:34 (four years ago) link
baggyAG
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:35 (four years ago) link
I went to an exhibition of these paintings in Shoreditch years ago... oh, and "Aphrodite at the Waterhole" was there two.
https://bigfatarts.com/pages/shapeism
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
Don't know about shapeism, I thought the paintings were supposed to be of the Infantile School.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
Can't believe I'm first to post this. It falls into the 'excellent' category, like the novel but unlike the film:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Fabritius-vink.jpg
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
Surprised nobody has mentioned The Quince Tree Sun yet
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
ppl aren't mentioning these actual real paintings by actual real painters bcz the fake and terrible paintings made for movies are better and it explodes the lie of art
https://www.billboard.com/files/media/lionel-richie-hello-video-1984-billboard-650.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
(by all means carry posting real art by real artists tho, let the explosion continue!)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
two child artists, from la grande bellezza:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzY1NzgwNjItMmE5ZS00Y2MzLTgzNGMtMGIyOWYzNDkzODMyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDE5MTU2MDE@._V1_.jpg
and parasite:
https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/73497389_139716164108607_1403751647927976973_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=103&oh=19cad6c5188bc58c767e017e8e280ac1&oe=5E6EE2C2
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
I would expect sculpture to be much more common in film than painting, though I’m not sure why; sculpture as mise en scene seems more natural.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
i haven't seen it for c.25 years but some of gillies mackinnon's small faces (no relation) was filmed at the glasgow school of art and used paintings almost as intertitles, if i'm remembering correctly. i can't find any links on the net, googling small faces paintings brings up nightmares redolent of illustrations feat.paul weller that make you think
(at the time i didn't think it worked especially well but i was speed-watching as part of a project abt pat barker's regeneration -- his next film -- so might just have been not in the mood for whatever it was aiming at. and the fact of it as a device has clearly stuck with me)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:38 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pVHnCJX.jpg?1https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/doctorwho-dragonfire4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Yad4JQF.jpg?1
Edward Peel's villain delivering this dramatic monologue in front of the rubbish ice statue of his dead wife in an episode of Dr Who
A work of artistry, my friend. Incandescent artistry. I could almost believe Xana lives again. A unique beauty, yes, but more than that, a criminal genius also. Oh, what a waste. It should have been I who was killed escaping arrest, not you. The whole of eternity has held its breath for this moment. But no one must ever see your work. It exists, that is enough. No one can ever look upon your work and live. Gaze on it and die fulfilled.(Kane places his bare hands on the sculptor's face and freezes him to death.)
― soref, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
is that an ice organ i spy in the background? this was an aesthetically rich episode, it has bricolage and everything: "One of the guard's lines, about the "semiotic thickness of a performed text", is a quotation from Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text, a 1983 media studies volume by John Tulloch and Manuel Alvarado. Story editor Andrew Cartmel had suggested that writers read The Unfolding Text to familiarise themselves with Doctor Who and its history, which inspired Ian Briggs to quote the academic text in his script"
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd9U3ecCcAAnBiM.jpg
― fetter, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
Are those Staffies in the GoodFellas painting?
― fetter, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
ah sorry I only just noticed you literally referenced the two dogs photo in the og post!
― Ste, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
don't apologise the thread needed the picture!
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
This is from the game not the show but it looks exactly the samehttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/c/c8/Grossbergoffice.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20151016234529
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
pleased to report btw that data's picture from PICARD -- aka the threadstarter -- remains the worst in the thread (and also galactic cultural history)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
What about the paintings Data painted in TNG?
https://i.stack.imgur.com/du4by.jpg
https://i.stack.imgur.com/rHJIj.jpg
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
If we're including statues then here's the one from 'Conan The Destroyer':https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/9/9b/Dagoth_statue.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131223174724Also the statue from the David Niven movie 'The Statue':https://www.diomedia.com/imagePreview/01AT6DTD?imageId=17827553&imageCode=01AT6DTD&contributor=Keystone+Pictures+USA&siteName=www.diomedia.com&title=&location=&ds=760&newStyle=1&tc=FFFFFF&tbc=333333&qv=95&icc=1&cl=1
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
If, like me, you're somewhat of a Niven fan and haven't heard of that movie, it's because it's awful.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
xp to tuomas: they're not as bad (they're very bad, the top one less so maybe, but they're not as bad)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01778_0531_000().jpg
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/contimission/data-art2.jpg
https://i.stack.imgur.com/5axq0.jpg
Apparently the paintings Data made in "Birthright" were actually auctioned at Christie's:
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/datas-paintings-4780095-details.aspx
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
AI bot sculpture still has some way to go
https://www.scifi-movies.com/images/contenu/data/0000066/photo-l-age-de-cristal-logan-s-run-1976-3.jpg
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
That top one toumas posted looks like hockney vomiting acyrilic paint in anger over one of his worst paintings
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link