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

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

rivendell painting very much in the data school

No plot to it but the ending of Andrei Rublev was great (as in wtf have been watching this for the last 2.5 hours)

https://youtu.be/0wvhOPX2DFw

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/images/4767e.jpg

odd man out & bonus production still

https://images.app.goo.gl/MDFWExuiAjwr54sx7

Herschell Gordon Lewis's Color Me Blood Red. Don't laugh, it's on the Criterion Channel.

trust me, it's bad

Russian Ark

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/11530394/960full-russian-ark-screenshot.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/%7BED791D92-68A3-45C7-843F-4AB22AB96489%7D/picture.JPG

Man, I love that movie.

Let’s not forget about Mel Chin’s quasi-conspiracy to put art out on Melrose Place: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.artnews.com/art-news/news/remembering-when-melrose-place-became-a-conceptual-art-project-mel-chins-gala-committee-returns-this-fall-6750/amp/

https://img.posterlounge.co.uk/img/products/480000/475576/475576_poster_l.jpg https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/360/1211/09/original-wings-love-print-1970s_360_caad92f9beeab032c66f8865a8e98e8b.jpg

^ name the tv production

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wsok3eSm0D0/U8s4xX5dCTI/AAAAAAAAGMw/8WYmVvY_6ng/s1600/Schiele.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

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

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

― calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

I loved it

― wee jim o’conor (wins), Friday, 7 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

I loved the film too but yes the ironing is how, in the end, this is an utterly unremarkable portrait. The film cleverly plays with the idea of either destroying it -- the one time my friend gasped was when the first effort was killed off -- or not fully displaying it to us the viewer. Looking back there is something astonishing about all of the training, skill, effort, study, love (and love and more love), aesthetics, art and yet...there is very little to show for it. Not that you mind at all, you lived through its creation, That was more than enough, but it may offer an insight or two in the puzzle with which this thread is concerned with.

looks one of my image links broke but it was 'wings of love' as featured in abigail's party, a terrible but also amazing painting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Love_(painting)

After the Second World War, shops such as Woolworths sold large numbers of colorful and sentimental or 'exotic' prints.[6] As a commercially reproduced picture, Wings of Love was sold ready-framed in many high street outlets, and became a best-selling image in the early 1970s. By 1992, 2.5 million copies of Wings of Love had been sold, many outside of the UK.[7][8]

The most notable appearance of Wings of Love was in a mural commissioned for a wall beside one of Saddam Hussein's many swimming pools in his palace.[9] The mural was recreated in the form of a projection on the wall of the Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast, in February 2009. In the exhibition ‘Taste: The New Religion’, at Manchester's Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Wings of Love finds a place beside pictures by Vladimir Tretchikoff, John Lynch and Peter Lightfoot as an example of the independent course of popular taste. Andrea Patrick Byrne, an award-winning London-based artist, references Wings of Love in her 2014 audiovisual self-portrait Girlhood.[10]
Popular culture

The print house Athena owed much of its resurgence in the 1980s to selling kitsch prints of a fantasy-world type, such as Unicorn Princess, Beach Lovers and A Dolphin Moon, that were inspired by Stephen Pearson's work.[11] Wings of Love was immortalized on the wall of Stan and Hilda Ogden's house in Coronation Street[12] and the painting also achieved cult status through its appearance in the 1977 film of Mike Leigh's play Abigail's Party,[13] In the film, the painting provokes a heated debate on the nature of "erotic art"; this culminates in Beverly Moss's husband Laurence dropping dead of a heart attack. The film Mona Lisa also features Wings of Love as part of recurring references to surrealism.[14]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cwKvvhYvL._SX425_.jpg

when i was clearing out mum and dad's attic i was startled to encounter a vast print of "wings of love" -- my absolutely stumped confusion makes me think i may never properly have watched abigail's party -- as i did not recognise it and it is a seriously unexpected image just to happen on (it was stored there by someone my sister know, who collects film memorabilia and had been temporarily embarrassed for storage space)

https://live.staticflickr.com/4480/24097904808_9ab1284082_b.jpg

(thread ends with ppl posting increasingly large embeds of wings of love)

it was stored there by someone my sister know, who collects film memorabilia and had been temporarily embarrassed for storage space

saddam hussein?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUA6SR3rZT8&feature=emb_title

Portait of a Lady on Fire is a really fine movie.. and the actual portrait is nuff shite! I was thinking the movie was working on themes of the discrepancy between memories, sensations and love and everything and the limits of artistic presentation or something, but then at the end you see music doing what the painting failed to do. Just sketchy thoughts here - i don't do coherent posts I'm afraid!

luckily the antiques auctions in shropshire are very flexible about the rules surrounding WMDs of unstated provenance

Scuds of Ludlow

never really noticed it before, and i know it has more obvious failings with regard to the laws of science, but the woman's shadow is really wrong in the wings of love

airbrush card revoked for that fucking arm on the bloke as well or was that a feature of the painting.. i can't remember tbh!

i suppose the shadow would actually make sense if the sun was on the left hand side of the painting, i always assumed that was the sun under the swan, but duh it's the moon isn't it? the moon of the giant night swan

that's best thing about athena surrealism-lite, you can just make it up as you go along!

yes it's not so clear in the version i posted, which has misleading glare in the top left corner -- in nick's there are clearly two lightsources, the moon and a redder source off to the left in what we can see, which reddens the pool of light the lady is sitting in as well as the outer wings of the bird (somewhat mysteriously in respect of the wing on the right side, unless there's a third light source off to the right, also red)

The mysteries of love

The painting of the woman on fire does the same thing as the music, though? It helps her remember and relive what happened. It's not Vivaldi, sure, but what is?

this old ep of "law and order" ("hands free") has some very schnabel-y art in it, but i can't find pictures on the internet :(

There was another Morse 🎨 last night, the lad knows what he likes

Have we talked about The Sandpiper yet?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/11/ef/4111efc1282e423f96a6436d46e1f609.png

Schalcken the painter (1979) incorporates a lot of his paintings, but the one the story centres around had to be created for the film. It’s described in the opening of LeFanu’s story:

There exists, at this moment, in good preservation a remarkable work of Schalken's. The curious management of its lights constitutes, as usual in his pieces, the chief apparent merit of the picture. I say apparent, for in its subject, and not in its handling, however exquisite, consists its real value. The picture represents the interior of what might be a chamber in some antique religious building; and its foreground is occupied by a female figure, in a species of white robe, part of which is arranged so as to form a veil. The dress, however, is not that of any religious order. In her hand the figure bears a lamp, by which alone her figure and face are illuminated; and her features wear such an arch smile, as well becomes a pretty woman when practicing some prankish roguery; in the background, and, excepting where the dim red light of an expiring fire serves to define the form, in total shadow, stands the figure of a man dressed in the old Flemish fashion, in an attitude of alarm, his hand being placed upon the hilt of his sword, which he appears to be in the act of drawing.