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 cultureThe 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]
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]
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cwKvvhYvL._SX425_.jpg
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
(thread ends with ppl posting increasingly large embeds of wings of love)
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
it was stored there by someone my sister know, who collects film memorabilia and had been temporarily embarrassed for storage space
saddam hussein?
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUA6SR3rZT8&feature=emb_title
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
luckily the antiques auctions in shropshire are very flexible about the rules surrounding WMDs of unstated provenance
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
Scuds of Ludlow
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
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
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
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
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
that's best thing about athena surrealism-lite, you can just make it up as you go along!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
The mysteries of love
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
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?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
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 :(
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
There was another Morse 🎨 last night, the lad knows what he likes
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
Have we talked about The Sandpiper yet?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/11/ef/4111efc1282e423f96a6436d46e1f609.pngSchalcken 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.
― Last night I dreamt I watched The Mandalorian (wins), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Attempted_restoration_of_Ecce_Homo.jpg/170px-Attempted_restoration_of_Ecce_Homo.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Smiling_girl_%28Fake_Vermeer%29.jpg/220px-Smiling_girl_%28Fake_Vermeer%29.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 28 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Was about to post the goodfellas dog painting but then re-read the og post. Do you know the story behind that? I love it so much.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 28 February 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
only that it's by nicholas pileggi's mom (he's the journalist who wrote the original book the film's based on) and it's inspired by a photo in (i think) national geographic
― mark s, Friday, 28 February 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
Since this thread was last active, I re-watched Corman's Fall of the House of Usher, which has some really quite effective portrait paintings by Majorie Cameron associate Burt Shonberg, as shown here:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2013/04/13/burt-shonbergs-poe-paintings/
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
love this thread, might spend my evening re-living it
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 25 November 2021 09:38 (two years ago) link
Another painter from Marjorie Cameron's circle is Renate Druks, a Viennese emigre who moved to the US. She was close to Anais Nin, and also involved in the film world through acting in Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (one of her party events provided the inspiration for the film). She also had some role in providing art work for Curtis Harrington's film 'Games':
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLIw2QJR2Es/UT-oof1c_JI/AAAAAAAABG4/6Zjc2KHnqhg/s640/games_21.png
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 25 November 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/usher6-big.jpg
Lemmy on the naughty step in hell for wearing a nazi hat!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 November 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
Mr Turner
https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/filmimages.php?movie_id=324035
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:19 (two years ago) link
(dangit!)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
truly cursed!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
Try that again.
I say! Time to give up the ghost!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jQLgZLaEUo
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 November 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
rewatching goodfellas and just reached the painting :)
(its good not bad)
― mark s, Sunday, 8 January 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f257383d68fbe07dae9c644/35d1e27e-2a4c-4cd7-8688-115a3a0ccd88/3f827875174021d97c4bd9f04a4fe85c.jpg
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Sunday, 8 January 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
https://darkshadowseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/strange-paradise-portrait.jpg
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Sunday, 8 January 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link