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Inspiration or lack of Imagination
It's well-known that paintings have always been the main source of artistic vision for film creative core - director, cinematographer and production designer.
It's well-known that paintings have always been the main source of artistic vision for film creative core - director, cinematographer and production designer. They use certain art works as refernces, or reproduce their cinematic copie, or integrate directly as a piece of composition.
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The question is if it's a cinematic copy of a painting - is it such an irresistible form of inspiration and a desire to prolong a lifespan of a painting or just a lack of imagination to create something new?
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The question is if it's a cinematic copy of a painting - is it such an irresistible form of inspiration and a desire to prolong a lifespan of a painting or just a lack of imagination to create something new?
Oksana Belousova
CEO & Founder of MY KINOROOM, Film Director
Here are some examples from Tate Britain:
"A Bigger Splash" by David Hockney that suposedly inspired Jacques Deray's visual style of his film "La Piscine" (1969) and Luca Guadagnino's remake of it in 2015;
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and "Ophelia" - a painting by John Millais which was cinematically copied by Lars von Trier in "Melancholia" (2011).
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However, there is a reverse effect, too - for example, in a painting "Cinema" by William Roberts.
"A Bigger Splash" by David Hockney that suposedly inspired Jacques Deray's visual style of his film "La Piscine" (1969) and Luca Guadagnino's remake of it in 2015;
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and "Ophelia" - a painting by John Millais which was cinematically copied by Lars von Trier in "Melancholia" (2011).
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However, there is a reverse effect, too - for example, in a painting "Cinema" by William Roberts.
Maybe you can spot more such examples at Tate Britain by taking a virtual tour to it. Or you remembered examples of other paintings?
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