itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

Terrible paintings, you say?

https://i.imgur.com/kQCNena.png

https://dailyscribbling.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hound1939-18.jpg

Vincent Price inherits The Haunted Palace from the guy in this portrait:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2QzN2Q1YWQtNjk1NC00ZTk2LWJkNDAtZjY1OTM1ZTY1YzlmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5NjM0NA@@._V1_.jpg

The painting in 'Batteries Not Included' is a plot point (and also NSFW so I'm not posting it in this thread).

it’s not nsfw if it’s art, dahling

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

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/156500155779080396/

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NmYqV.jpg
the thread-starter

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41kat8xhScL.jpg
I've always found the painting in Picard's ready room to be rather lame

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

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/

I really liked The Devil's Candy but not so much for the painting
https://twocentspluschange.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/the-devils-candy.jpg

Does Lionel Ritchie’s sculpted likeness in “Hello” count?

absolutely

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

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

originally painted by nicholas pileggi's mum, fact fans

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

To know beauty one must live with it is def the motto of this thread

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]

"to know beauty one must live with it"
— akasha, queen of the damned

https://i.imgur.com/TUl3MBy.jpg

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."

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

that haircut is a work of art in its own right

baggyAG

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

Don't know about shapeism, I thought the paintings were supposed to be of the Infantile School.

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

Surprised nobody has mentioned The Quince Tree Sun yet

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

(by all means carry posting real art by real artists tho, let the explosion continue!)

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

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.

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)

https://i.imgur.com/pVHnCJX.jpg?1
https://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.)

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"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd9U3ecCcAAnBiM.jpg

Are those Staffies in the GoodFellas painting?

ah sorry I only just noticed you literally referenced the two dogs photo in the og post!

don't apologise the thread needed the picture!

This is from the game not the show but it looks exactly the same
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/c/c8/Grossbergoffice.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20151016234529

pleased to report btw that data's picture from PICARD -- aka the threadstarter -- remains the worst in the thread (and also galactic cultural history)

What about the paintings Data painted in TNG?

https://i.stack.imgur.com/du4by.jpg

https://i.stack.imgur.com/rHJIj.jpg

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=20131223174724
Also 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

If, like me, you're somewhat of a Niven fan and haven't heard of that movie, it's because it's awful.

xp to tuomas: they're not as bad (they're very bad, the top one less so maybe, but they're not as bad)

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

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

That top one toumas posted looks like hockney vomiting acyrilic paint in anger over one of his worst paintings

is it a picture of the charge of the light brigade? the LB as vomited bright red acrylic wd be good art praxis if so

(i like when data's approach is overly algorithmic tho, someone is paying attention in the correct directions even if the picture comes out crappy) (this does not apply to the threadstarter which is in the "spooky resemblance of ancestor to current character" mode lol)