Famous Paintings - An Exercise in Imitation 1

Here's what happens when things are taken too literally.

On purpose you understand.

Posters

Film

The Fall vs Face of Mae West - Salvador Dali

Maniacts vs The Scream - Edvard Munch

American Gothic (1988) vs American Gothic - Grant Wood

Television

Daredevil Season 2

David with the Head of Goliath (1610) - Caravaggio

Saint Jerome in His Study - Caravaggio

The Last Judgment - Michelangelo

St. Sebastian - Peter Paul Rubens

Just one from American Horror Story (Season 1), but it's a goodie.

Las Meninas - Diego Velázquez

Title sequence of Elfen Lied was clearly inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt.

Check out smashing mash up.

The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

More variations.

Miscellany

I've suddenly gone Berserk.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Hell) detail - Hieronymus Bosch

Relativity - M.C. Escher

Whoa.

Don't know what came over me, but I'm okay now.

These next few don't really fit anywhere, but whatever.

As Christoph Waltz pulls a beer in Tarantino's Django Unchained, scantily clad lady appears to be something along the lines of Francisco Goya's Nude Maya.

Even stranger.

House of the Dead
Please note detail of framed object propped up against wall.

It isn't, but it certainly looks like Clothed Maya.

Just WHAT?

Returning to normality with Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

Sarah Campbell - Joshua Reynolds

Mrs Hallett (The Morning Walk) - Thomas Gainsborough

Malvern Hall, Warwickshire - John Constable

Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête - William Hogarth

More cosplay.

Django Unchained vs The Blue Boy - Thomas Gainsborough

The Duchess

Keira Knightley was probably based on more of Gainsborough's genius.

Namely, Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire (left) or Elizabeth Beaufo.

Disney's Frozen and the sickening 2015 live action adaptation of Cinderella both recreate Fragonard's The Swing.

Here's more from The Scream.

Home Alone (Kevin) and Ghostface (Scream series)

Two more.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Zenobia (Margaret Whiting) reacts badly to her son Rafi dying in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.

A Million Ways to Die in the West

You're having a Salvador Dali aren't you?

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (left) or The Elephants

Wedding ceremony in The Rocky Horror Picture Show cleverly makes reference to American Gothic.

Pull away shot in The Equalizer is based on Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

Same thing in Deep Red.

Scene in Michael Mann's Heat is based on Alex Colville's Pacific.

Hellbound: Hellriaser II
Dr. Channard wanted to know.
Now he knows.

Sgt. Boyle is crucified off-screen in The Silence of the Lambs.

Both thank Francis Bacon.

Figure With Meat

High-Rise smells of M.C. Escher's Relativity.

More clear cut is Inception, as paradoxical architecture is Ascending and Descending. 

Bates' house was modelled on Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad.

Isle of the Dead recreates one of Arnold Böcklin's paintings of same name.

Fifth version (1886)

While not quite on the money, Weird Science does its level best to replicate Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa.

Unmissable structure in Metropolis echoes Pieter Brueghel the Elder's Tower of Babel.

Not long before he terrified cinema audiences in 1979 with Alien, The Duellists was Ridley Scott's directorial debut.

Set piece could be based on:

Napoleon on St Helena - Francois-Joseph Sandmann

Or.

Napoleon Bonaparte - Benjamin Robert Haydon

While dreaming up Pale Man in fantasy epic Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro certainly had Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son in mind.

Father Merrin entering the MacNeil house in The Exorcist was inspired by René Magritte's The Empire of Lights.

Finally.

The big screen version of The Flintstones was innocent enough and Halle Berry looked ultra sexy in a leopard skin halter neck thing.
Aside from that, Slate and Co. displays a mural smacking of Picasso's Guernica.

Phew.

Until next time.