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
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Freaks and Geeks - Discos and Dragons
Hand with Reflecting Sphere (left), Relativity (middle) and Waterfall (right) - M.C. Escher |
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Father Ted - Hell
The Sistine Madonna - Raphael |
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One Foot in the Grave - Warm Champagne
The Bedroom - Vincent van Gogh |
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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)
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S1 E1
The Biglin Brothers Racing - Thomas Eakins |
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S1 E9
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair - Mary Cassatt |
Homecoming
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| Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte appears throughout the first season of critically acclaimed series. |
More specifically.
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Toys
Still Life with Shrimps and Crabs on a Tin Plate - Alexander Adriaenssen |
Bottom
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Contest
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait shows up in first series. |
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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
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Me²
Composition II - Piet Mondrian |
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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
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A Touch of Class
The Sin-le-Noble Road near Douai - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Carot |
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The Wedding Party
Seated Dancer Leaning Forward, Massaging Her Left Foot - Edgar Degas |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)
Artless
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| The School of Athens - Raphael |
Sparse compared to original, but Jesus - animators gave shit a good shot.
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| St George - Donatello |
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| Michelangelo with 'his' statue of David. |
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| The Last Judgment (detail) |
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| The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci |
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| The Sistine Chapel ceiling |
Only Fools & Horses
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A Touch of Glass
The Rialto Bridge - Caneletto² |
²ntbcw his cousin Bernardo Bellotto who shared the same
nickname.
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To Hull and Back
Portrait of Francisco Pacheco - Diego Velázquez |
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If They Could See Us Now
The Boyhood of Raleigh - John Everett Millais |
And.
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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
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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Bucks
Dance - Henri Matisse (left) and Campbell's Soup Can - Andy Warhol |
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The Giggity Wife
Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jacques-Louis David |
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The Big Bang Theory
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci |
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V Is for Mystery
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte - Georges Seurat |
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North by North Quahog
Vitruvian Man - Leonardo da Vinci |
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Brian Goes Back to College
Relativity - M.C. Escher |
The Most Interesting Man in the World
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| Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) - Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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| The Bay of Marseilles, Seen from L'Estaque - Paul Cézanne (left) and At the Moulin Rouge - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| The Peristence of Memory - Salvador Dali (left) and Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) - Claude Monet |
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| Woman at Her Toilette - Berthe Morisot (left) and Woman and Child at the Well - Camille Pissarro |
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| The Water Lily Pond - Claude Monet |
Today's lesson concludes with
Marvel's The Defenders.
Royal Dragon
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| Primavera - Botticelli |
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| The Birth of Venus - Botticelli |
Ashes, Ashes
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| The Battle of San Romano - Paolo Uccello |
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| The Muses Clio, Euterpe and Thalia - Eustache Le Sueur |
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| Diana and Her Companions - Johannes Vermeer |
Until next time.
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