Thursday, 20 September 2018

Artistic beauty in film III

Annie (1982)

George Washington - Gilbert Stuart
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
Self-portrait at the age of 34 - Rembrandt (top left)
Blue Boy - Thomas Gainsborough
The Night Watch - Rembrandt
The Age of Innocence

The Duel After the Masquerade - Jean-Leon Gerome
The Return of Spring - William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Ball - James Tissot
The Political Lady - James Tissot
Too Early - James Tissot
The Gallery of the Louvre - Samuel F. B. Morse 
Caresses - Fernand Khnopff
The Death of Jane McCrea - John Vanderlyn
The Death of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency - Peter Paul Rubens
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

*The Siesta (left) and Self-portrait 1889 (right)
*Van Gogh copied many of Millet's original works, including The Sower and The Reaper.
Portrait of the Comte de Turenne - Jacques-Louis David
San Giorgio at Dusk (left) and Woman with a Parasol (right) - Monet
The Intervention of the Sabine Women - Jacques-Louis David
The Mirror of Venus - Edward Burne-Jones
Son of Man - René Magritte
Signature piece is seen shall we say - several times.
The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil - Édouard Manet
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons - Jacques-Louis David
The Valpinçon Bather - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Artist's Garden at Eragny - Camille Pissaro
Entrapment

Portrait of Lunia Czechowska With a Fan - Amedeo Modigliani
Bathsheba at Her Bath - Rembrandt
Figure in Movement - Francis Bacon (left) and Portrait of Mario Varvogli - Amedeo Modigliani (bottom right)
M-Maybe - Roy Lichtenstein
Goodfellas

Dempsey and Firpo - George Bellows
The Last Supper is used in two different locations.

Young Henry's house.
Tommy's house.
Who's that chatting to resident psychopath? It's only Martin Scorsese's mum.
Cinderella (2015)

The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627 - Frans Hals
The Swing - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
George I and the House of Hanover - James Thornhill
The Progress of Love - The Pursuit (far left) and The Confession of Love (far right) - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Inspired by non-fiction book of same name, title sequence for Letters to Juliet is predictably bathed in romance.

Selection follows.

Psyche and Cupid - François Gérard
The Stolen Kiss - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Romeo and Juliet - Frank Dicksee
The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet - Francesco Hayez
Romeo and Juliet - Ford Maddox Brown
The Kiss - Francesco Hayez
Le Baiser (The Kiss) - Carolus-Duran
Equilibrium

Allegory on the Blessings of Peace - Peter Paul Rubens
Consequences of War - Peter Paul Rubens
Lady with an Ermine (top left) and Mona Lisa (centre bottom) - Leonardo da Vinci
Lady with jug is The Source by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
The Story Book - William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Back to the Future Part II

And the Gold in Their Bodies - Paul Gauguin
Bal du moulin de la Galette - Renoir 
Self-portrait with Felt Hat - Van Gogh
Miscellany

A Clockwork Orange
Phallic sculpture is Herman Makkink's Rocking Machine.
Also, we're surrounded by a few pieces by his brother Cornelis.
Alfie (1966)
The Chinese Lady - Vladimir Tretchikoff
Amélie
Luncheon of the Boating Party - Renoir
Con Air
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci
Dead Heat (1988)
The logo of Dante Pharmaceuticals is Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
Inception
Study for Head of George Dyer - Francis Bacon
Oldboy (2013)
In Spike Lee's pointless, and frankly rubbish remake of Park Chan-wook's controversial South Korean classic, the eagle eyed will notice Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Short Circuit 2
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci
Superman II
Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington - Gilbert Stuart
The Goonies
Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard - Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
The Possession
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci (far left)
I'll finish with the genius that is the Carry On franchise.

at Your Convenience
The Chinese Lady - Vladimir Tretchikoff (top left)
Cowboy
Danaë with Eros - Titian
Loving
Miss Wong - Vladimir Tretchikoff
And most difficult to spot is:

Screaming
Self-portrait with Her Daughter - Élisabeth Louise Vigeé Le Brun
Just wow, right?
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