Saturday, 11 July 2020

Famous Paintings in Television - Episode 1

Although light compared to films and even video games, the small screen more than holds its own.

Please note, the vast majority are never identified, leaving artist and title anonymous.

That's where I come in.

Miscellany

Freaks and Geeks - Discos and Dragons
Hand with Reflecting Sphere (left), Relativity (middle) and Waterfall (right) - M.C. Escher
Father Ted - Hell
The Sistine Madonna - Raphael
One Foot in the Grave - Warm Champagne
The Bedroom - Vincent van Gogh
Messiah - The Reckoning
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is obvious, but Frans Pourbus the Younger's effort of same name is easily missed.
We're just getting started.

House of Cards (America)

S1 E1
The Biglin Brothers Racing - Thomas Eakins
S1 E9
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair - Mary Cassatt
Homecoming

Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte appears throughout the first season of critically acclaimed series.
More specifically.

Toys
Still Life with Shrimps and Crabs on a Tin Plate - Alexander Adriaenssen
Bottom

Contest
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait shows up in first series.
Vladimir Tretchikoff's Miss Wong can be seen often.
In this example, the lads attempt to get fit ahead of a Break to sunny Doncaster.
Red Dwarf

Me²
Composition II - Piet Mondrian
Better Than Life¹
The Kitchen Maid - Johannes Vermeer
¹sequel novel of same name to Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers also incorporates plot devices of Marooned, White Hole, Polymorph and Backwards.

Fawlty Towers

A Touch of Class
The Sin-le-Noble Road near Douai - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Carot
The Wedding Party
Seated Dancer Leaning Forward, Massaging Her Left Foot - Edgar Degas
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)

Artless

The School of Athens - Raphael
Sparse compared to original, but Jesus - animators gave shit a good shot.

St George - Donatello
Michelangelo with 'his' statue of David.
The Last Judgment (detail)
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci
The Sistine Chapel ceiling
Only Fools & Horses

A Touch of Glass
The Rialto Bridge - Caneletto²
²ntbcw his cousin Bernardo Bellotto who shared the same nickname.

To Hull and Back
Portrait of Francisco Pacheco - Diego Velázquez
If They Could See Us Now
The Boyhood of Raleigh - John Everett Millais
And.

Yesterday Never Comes
Posh tart Miranda uses Del to get her hands on a valuable untitled work by ficitional late 19th-century painter Joshua Blythe.
Who created it?

Pass.

Family Guy

A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Bucks
Dance - Henri Matisse (left) and Campbell's Soup Can - Andy Warhol
The Giggity Wife
Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jacques-Louis David
The Big Bang Theory
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
V Is for Mystery
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte - Georges Seurat
North by North Quahog
Vitruvian Man - Leonardo da Vinci
Brian Goes Back to College
Relativity - M.C. Escher
The Most Interesting Man in the World

Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Bay of Marseilles, Seen from L'Estaque - Paul Cézanne (left) and At the Moulin Rouge - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Peristence of Memory - Salvador Dali (left) and Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) - Claude Monet
Woman at Her Toilette - Berthe Morisot (left) and Woman and Child at the Well - Camille Pissarro
The Water Lily Pond - Claude Monet
Today's lesson concludes with Marvel's The Defenders.

Royal Dragon

Primavera - Botticelli
The Birth of Venus - Botticelli
Ashes, Ashes

The Battle of San Romano - Paolo Uccello
The Muses Clio, Euterpe and Thalia - Eustache Le Sueur
Diana and Her Companions - Johannes Vermeer
Until next time.

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