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
