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

christopher walken and christopher walken’s large adult son in batman returns

https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/batman_returns_0.jpg?itok=o9Xn9NUu

The Witch painting spooked me as a kid. I think there’s an MR James story with a changing painting too?

This is the only evidence I can find online of the painting from Fulci's The Beyond:

@MondoNews who do I have to sleep with to at least get a high quality print of Schweick's painting from Fulci's The Beyond?!!!#luciofulci #thebeyond #sevengatesofhell #eibon pic.twitter.com/DcBgOWulX3

— Robert McQueen (@mcqueen_robert) October 8, 2019

The Witches, I should say (xpost)

yeah dowd the James story is "The Mezzotint"

Ah, thanks! I think I read it about the same time I saw the Witches, I remember it having quite an effect on me.

Abel Ferrara's shit painting of a buffalo features heavily in Driller Killer, drives him over the edge in fact. So blame the fucking buffalo, not him.

https://themovieelite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/driller-killer-buffalo-painting-1200x520.jpg

Wish I could find the story I read as a kid of somebody putting together a jigsaw with no picture on the box that gradually turned out to be a creepy green fungal looking house and when they put the last piece in they found themself inside this place and whatever lived there ate them

this is probably the wrong thread but the way crap artist Julian Schnabel weaves himself into his Basquiat movie (played by Gary Oldman) is so vain and bad and nauseating!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKxIxEyDPg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/57/01/3657015abcdf953625915c6a82c2852a.png

As far as TV shows go, the portrait in Schitt’s Creek is excellent.

https://frinkiac.com/img/S02E18/1229677.jpg

https://i.etsystatic.com/5851351/r/il/8a7050/370274291/il_570xN.370274291_d67a.jpg

https://www.jewishexponent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/creek1.jpg

Noodle, your story sounds interesting and it got me Googling. This isn't it, but seems like a variant:

https://www.wattpad.com/1796672-a-collection-of-short-scary-stories-the-strangest

https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/Adobe_Dick

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP9aBRtWoAELZ4p?format=jpg

i've been trying to find more of the category i associate best of the badness with: where we encounter a portrait in which a strong resemblance between a living character and the painting implies some dark connection or creepiness or obsession

cousin Barnabas from England looks so much like his ancestor

https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/2480x1400/public/wire/legacy/dark-shadows-jonathan-frid-barnabas-collins.jpg

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!)

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f257383d68fbe07dae9c644/35d1e27e-2a4c-4cd7-8688-115a3a0ccd88/3f827875174021d97c4bd9f04a4fe85c.jpg

https://darkshadowseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/strange-paradise-portrait.jpg