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

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

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:36 (six years ago)

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

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

Josefa, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:38 (six years ago)

Thanks for that link, Josefa!

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:53 (six years ago)

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

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:55 (six years ago)

loved this film as a kid

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

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:02 (six years ago)

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.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:07 (six years ago)

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.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:11 (six years ago)

'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

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:13 (six years ago)

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

Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:17 (six years ago)

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

ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:21 (six years ago)

Reminded me of this:

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

Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:29 (six years ago)

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

Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:49 (six years ago)

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

Ste, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:51 (six years ago)

that's an extremely poor rendering of ernie hudson

Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:52 (six years ago)

how about movies or shows where a prowler lurks behind the wall, peering through the eyes of the portrait!!! spooky stuff!

andrew m., Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:04 (six years ago)

excellent one imo

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/68/35/7e/68357e9cabfaa44ca5e028e4bdf52504.png

Ste, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:08 (six years ago)

sorry should have pointed out NSFW!

Ste, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:09 (six years ago)

but prob doesn't count as it's not movie originated

Ste, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:11 (six years ago)

excellent art, not a plot point.

andrew m., Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:12 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/TREYzP1.jpg

mark s, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:14 (six years ago)

Aren’t there some gaudy paintings of biff & Lorraine in trump-biff’s mansion in bttf2? Can’t find online

Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:14 (six years ago)

The wonderful opening sequence of the TV “What We Do In the Shadows” is full of amazing not terrible art:

rb (soda), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:32 (six years ago)

Loved the Raul Julia thing, had no idea he played M Bison, and made the mistake of learning more. Of course he filmed this, his last role, when he was dying of stomach cancer so his children could see him in a movie they'd enjoy ;_;

lukas, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:39 (six years ago)

Bojack Horseman is incredible on so many levels

Frederik B, Thursday, 6 February 2020 08:31 (six years ago)

futher evidence of data's crimes against art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogFxgtsypBc

the case for the defence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-iFOEOgIM

Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:00 (six years ago)

things i've been hunting for meanwhile = wall art in 50s and 60s cartoons, esp.the hubleys at UPA

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:00 (six years ago)

Here to show critical support for Data's artworks!

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:46 (six years ago)

Re: action painting there is one depiction of it in Pasolini's Teorema.

I can't remember what the painting in Quince Tree Sun looks like :-( Want to think it's good because I liked the film so much.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:49 (six years ago)

jean luc picart

ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:43 (six years ago)

again def not plot point but always liked this discovery - https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/11/stuart-little-leads-to-lost-painting

johnny crunch, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:44 (six years ago)

Is there action painting in one of the original Bedazzled vignettes with Eleanor Bron? Feel like there is but can't be arsed to Google.

GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:45 (six years ago)

Or like I could've confused it with If..... or somethink

GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:45 (six years ago)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EMjd-S0Zd8s/Ux5mW6_nssI/AAAAAAAACZU/EqofiIjkryU/s1600/732_2.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:55 (six years ago)

https://rjamahoney.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ba-1.png?w=600&h=338

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:59 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/tQ1mqX2.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:04 (six years ago)

There's probably a ton of terrible paintings in Velvet Buzzsaw but I am not going to seek them out.

Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:33 (six years ago)

So why do film people hate painting so much? Static visual art is only a bit boring leave it alone lol.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:38 (six years ago)

we dont hate it we love it u buffoon

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:15 (six years ago)

Film people = the ppl that make films not ppl posting on the thread. Just wondering out loud why the paintings are mostly bad.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:21 (six years ago)

ah yes that's a key question -- there was a special sight and sound supplement on this topic ("art in movies") when i worked there, i shd dig out out and see if it's better than this thread (it won't be)

it's probably 30 yrs since i watched this (i didn't like it then):
https://anotherimg-dazedgroup.netdna-ssl.com/900/azure/another-prod/350/4/354103.jpg

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:27 (six years ago)

Dali for Spellbound

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7G6jzvD0s10/WWXMJQ9UbHI/AAAAAAAAZv0/3mZUXHjNwtwjnICzYwnWkdSAUFRuNBK6wCLcBGAs/s1600/spellbound-1945-dream-salvador-dali.jpg

by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:28 (six years ago)

The House on the Corner (I'll Never Forget You), 18th c. painting bears striking resemblance to Tyrone Power:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-foQGhoev1cM/UiS3iaTjAXI/AAAAAAAAJdc/E0MfGXfRGPY/s1600/11.JPG

by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:33 (six years ago)

Okay which movie am I trying to remember that features a scene where someone is perhaps getting torn apart/murdered and they're screaming - whilst the camera flashes to a series of paintings on a wall where the portraits just look on in nonchalance
?

Ste, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:11 (six years ago)

(it's possible the 'victim' was maybe just having sex instead)

Ste, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:14 (six years ago)

http://getdrawings.com/image/the-real-rose-drawing-from-titanic-60.jpg

omar little, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:27 (six years ago)


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