Music Videos
At least in surrealist paintings a link can be seen to some music videos in the use both make of the free association of ideas and images. This section will look at the role paintings … Read more
Posts in Category ‘Portfolio’
An overview of the various content pages depending on paintings, films or the correlation in between.
Inspirations and Speculations
The inspiration for this website was Susan Seidelman’s 1994 short film The Dutch Master (1994) where the dental hygienist Teresa becomes fascinated by a Dutch painting in MoMa. The painting’s characters suddenly take on a … Read more
More Films by Painters
The painters dealt with in the second section of this subject are Alexander Petrov, Hwang Ildong, Maria Lassnig,Yayoi Kusama and Banksy. Also worthy of consideration are Robert Smithson, James Scott, William Kentridge and Takeshi Kitano … Read more
Films ‘inspired’ by Paintings
Popular paintings that may—or may not?—have been the inspiration behind films… Without denying the sheer enjoyability of such speculations it is sometimes a bit of a leap of faith to claim that not just one … Read more
Films by Painters
The painters dealt with range from Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol to less well-known ones like Joseph Cornell, Bruce Connor, Bruce Lacey and Derek Boshie. Walker (161—62) provides a list … Read more
TV / Television
Miami Vice “The Lost Madonna”, season 5 episode 14 first broadcast 17 March 1989 Two paintings which were part of the 15th century triptych The Madonna of the Spirits are found in a pick-up truck … Read more
Individual Films
A selection of films plus one TV episode in which paintings play an important narrative role. What is decisive here is that the paintings featured in the films are crucial in driving the narrative forward … Read more
Individual Directors
Six film directors will be considered whose films have been variously concerned with the art of painting. All five of the below developed an interest in painting at an early age two of who went … Read more
Other Painter Biopics
Vincent Van Gogh has had the most films made about him followed by Rembrandt van Rijin and Pablo Picasso. The other painters come from Ireland, Argentina, Hungary, Estonia and Russia among many other countries. … Read more
East Asian Painting and Cinema
Biopics about Japanese, South Korean and Chinese painters. The groundbreaking, seminal study edited by Ehrlich and Desser on Sino-Japanese paintings and film must be mentioned here (see bibliography). Five Women around Utamaro (Japan … Read more