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

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)

The statues in Robert wise’s the Haunting are good: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/3RCr3le

Though expanding to sculpture risks overwhelming the topic with statues of Christ.

https://i.imgur.com/sRDrwnM_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

statues of christ sculpted by data are welcome

the secret history of st:tng is that it's actually a seven-season polemic about how synthetic life is bad not good (cf data actively threatening the lives of the crew on multiple occasions and being bafflingly reinstated to his vitally important duties after every single one) and his shit-ass paintings are one of the major clues that something is profoundly and unredeemably RONG with him

As far as Dark Shadows goes, there is a painting that features more prominently in the bits I am (I’m exactly halfway through the series now) - Cassandra’s portrait. https://images.app.goo.gl/32WQKrq5hXSjmTr19 Which is...not great. Barnabas’ is clearly better.

https://darkshadowseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/498-dark-shadows-angelique-portrait.jpg

Good rundown of all the Dark Shadows portraits, good, bad and hideously ugly:

http://dsb4idie.blogspot.com/p/old-house-portraits_8.html

Thanks for that link, Josefa!

If we're expanding the field to include other artistic media might I throw jackietreehornsketch.jpg into the ring

loved this film as a kid

https://i.imgur.com/fY4V8BD.jpg

From 'Dr. No' (1962), a painting of the Duke of Wellington that had been stolen in 1961.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/d4/05/84d40597db91634668b245236d09e6ca.jpg
Not a plot point as such, but it adds to Dr. No's characterisation as a high end criminal.

Also "that painting from 'Skyfall'", also known as 'The Fighting Temeraire'.
https://paintingvalley.com/images/skyfall-painting-21.png
Again not really a plot point, more of a character/relationaship development point between Bond and Q.

'Skyfall' also has another painting in it, which itself is a reference to the stolen painting gag in 'Dr. No'.
http://paintingsinmovies.com/m/view/id/56

dodgeball: a true underdog story (2004) dir: rawson marshall thurber

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.shopify.com%2Fs%2Ffiles%2F1%2F0813%2F8015%2Fproducts%2FScreen_Shot_2015-05-22_at_15.30.05_1024x1024.png%3Fv%3D1447860765&f=1&nofb=1

https://i.ibb.co/gZgQHjP/FB-IMG-1580916073109.jpg

Reminded me of this:

https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/2019/07/img_8567.jpg

2 from fire walk with me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVssMJsCQAQST2G.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/7e2cfc28d63ce5319a7834df89f74f74/tumblr_pm81qeNdPI1x5d6ybo4_500.png

Painting of Amy in a previous incarnation from fright night:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/c0/95/dac0955530fb4b0768fabf52ff55c97d.jpg

Ghostbusters 2 was mentioned already of course, but forgot about this one

https://i.etsystatic.com/6958508/r/il/028757/1140560861/il_570xN.1140560861_d6uq.jpg