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

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

Recent horror drug thriller "Bliss:"
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/hPcm_Te2QGq3PIyWIH3GWYM5r4YB16yiKtKxOtYxjQth4AAxd-lVhzLlyc1jImn1fCFcW4pzXmLPcLcAgVFT1EOBeBbaMyWAVfmexDRudGEVE7xke0KTtpf9ogIk3YS0nSMKzb0Q

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

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vzpaZko9yGk/W48WBzP24hI/AAAAAAAAEZE/uLUNYZmRyGk8QNf4Wbinb_MtHC8TZSYGQCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-09-04%2Bat%2B4.10.22%2BPM.png

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

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

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

https://i.ibb.co/d2VF3Vq/1961-photo-rebel-tony-hancock-picture-1-9fd1c4b1224a666a410a5581a73f4e55.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/QMdXkgY/rebel-1961-12102201.jpg

we dont hate it we love it u buffoon

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

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

Dali for Spellbound

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

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

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
?

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

More noir in the ‘Two Mrs Carrolls’.

https://www.sartle.com/sites/default/files/images/blog/tumblr_inline_o3p50a6eLi1sthg2o_540.png
https://andyoucallyourselfascientist.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ttmc47-painting3c.jpg

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

https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sGiY.jpg

http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Live-and-Die.jpg

Ste are you thinking of bad timing? various kilmt paintings act as quasi-voyeurs to everything that happens to theresa russell (which doesn't include her murder but does include an emergency operation to save her life depicted as a brutal bodily invasion)

https://i.stack.imgur.com/6tJle.jpg

(there are so many Napoleon Soprano w/Pie-Oh-My knock offs out there...)

Art School Confidential may be meh, but the bad art is fantastically bad

https://i1.netflixmovies.com/dibsl9ebc/image/upload/w_1920,h_800,c_fill,g_faces,q_62/u5xckpeocl1if7qniwiz.jpg

http://somamagazine.com/site/wp-content/uploads/Art-school.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p64Y_Kfib3M/USw5wkQEaWI/AAAAAAAAFCY/ktuh1a_RcDk/s1600/Richie_Margot_drawings.png

Mark, I might be thinking of Trading Places when Dan Aykroyd is arrested in the chambers. Didn't they cut to the shots of paintings on the wall of past chairmen or something looking on in disgust?

i think there might be a TP scene where snooty old portrait people look on in disdain but i don't think anyone gets dismembered (or even has sex onscreen)!

haha yeah i got that bit way off

just reporting that the painting scenes in Portait of a Lady on Fire are probably quite as realistically formulaic and unremarkable as the work of an 18th century society portraitist would be, well with the caveat that I fell asleep halfway through and will catch up on "episode 2" tonight!

https://media0.giphy.com/media/VdEphHnbfxOqNrJZwn/source.gif

12 monkeys
https://www.tvequals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/12-Monkeys-Syfy-Mentally-Divergent-Episode-2-18.jpg

(in the book eustace is further docked aslan kiss-ass points bcz he correctly prefers modern art to bad narnian hyperrealism)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-vFCM6H4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNPy9TU4kq0

http://paintingsinmovies.com/ir/5/344.jpg

I just found this site:

http://paintingsinmovies.com/m/main

How'd we miss this one?
http://paintingsinmovies.com/ir/5/304.jpg

there's also an "art in the movies" blog: https://artinthemovies.wordpress.com/

(but i'd prefer ppl contribute things they themselves know or remember or have a relationship than just raid other ppl's lists!) (tho by all means use these places to remind yrself of such relationships)

Yeah, for the record those last couple were from memory! This one, too:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/eh9jM6kgRho5-RI5vUO1DN3ub3thHkOB35SkoeZHm67DMNHPCWp8p-5cbFTx39wZC9GQn51XWmB6KEzM_NgclrZavPXvcR2D-mxwP6FZNo3LOO5Rbooocj6lKOs_5GBfzT-exgm4hpMXZo_IZ1XO5NIWojagxyFIYSDKEJfLAnlTmhDy0tyXg1ieIHEsBJxzU-M

https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/cave_of_forgotten_dreams-big_1000_420_90_c1.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/85/a3/6e85a33f117354628e592ae3ff8b4012.gif

https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/KikiAndUrsula-740x405.jpg

just reporting that the painting scenes in Portait of a Lady on Fire are probably quite as realistically formulaic and unremarkable as the work of an 18th century society portraitist would be, well with the caveat that I fell asleep halfway through and will catch up on "episode 2" tonight!

― calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Lol oh no watching that next week

I didn't mean it was boring or bad.. I was rather tired and it was late.

I loved it

Yeah sometimes 2am screenings are good but only if I stay awake

just for more clarity when i said "formulaic and unremarkable" i didn't mean the actual movie but more like the chocolate box rigidity the society portraitist depicted in the movie is working within, maybe that changes by the end of the movie idk but it seemed quite excellent!

When it comes to use of art I thought it more noticeable how hilariously fake the commoner choir music sounded. Great film though

does this one from Popeye count?

https://i.imgur.com/ExWk4re.jpg

lol need to watch popeye again, i love it

There's a nice Brueghel in Solaris iirc. He recreates another with live people in Mirror.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAmyu.png