10 famous paintings that inspired movie plans

Art: Cinema and Painting

Cinema and the visual arts involve the spectator, with the aim of evoking and expressing ideas and emotions through movement, color and composition. Between these two areas, there is a symbiosis that moves artists to create works inspired by others. Several directors have been inspired by paintings in the construction of the frames of their films. Discover in this article ten paintings that inspired the creation of cinematographic scenes.

1. Film: The Duellists (1977) by Ridley Scott

Painting: Napoleon Bonaparte Musing at St. Helena (1845) by Benjamin Robert Haydon

2. Film: “The Truman Show” (1998), by Peter Weir

Painting: “Architecture au Clair de Lune” (1856), by René Magritte

3. Film: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) by Terry Gilliam

Painting: The Birth of Venus (1480-86) by Sandro Botticelli

4. Film: Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012)

Painting: The Blue Boy (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough

5. Film: Inherent Vice (2014) Paul Thomas Anderson

Painting: The Last Supper (1498) by Leonardo da Vinci

6. House by the Railroad (1925) by Edward Hopper

Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock

7. Christina's World (1948) by Andrew Wyeth

Days of Heaven (1978) by Terrence Mallick

8. Film: Heat (1995) by Michael Mann

Painting: Pacific (1967) by Alex Colville

9. Film: Melancholia (2011) by Lars von Trier

Painting: Ophelia (1851-2) by John Everett Miliais

10. Film: “The Return” (2003), by Andrei Zvyagintsev

Painting: “Lamentation over the Dead Christ” (1475-1478), by Andrea Mantegna