Under the cloud of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, the major theaters have been closed one after another, and it is impossible to go to the cinema to see movies. During the holidays, the daily activity venues have been transformed from shopping malls, restaurants, cinemas, rooms, living rooms, kitchens...
Staying at home, I can only find previous movies to relieve my boredom. If you are an art lover, then please accept this list of films related to world famous paintings.
<h1>"Beloved Van Gogh"</h1>
The animated film Beloved Van Gogh is the world's first full-hand-painted oil painting feature film that pays tribute to Van Gogh. Beloved Van Gogh was created by Oscar-winning Polish production team Breakthru Films and studio Trademark Films.
They recruit outstanding oil painters around the world, and the selectors go through three weeks of training in Van Gogh's artistic style before they can join the team and start creating. The two studios worked together to produce the entire film from 65,000 oil paintings.
Van Gogh was a pioneer of Post-Impressionism and deeply influenced the art of painting in the 20th century, especially Fauvism and Expressionism. Van Gogh himself was a great lover of portraiture, painting 35 self-portraits in his lifetime.
<h1>The Mill and the Cross</h1>
Adapted from the novel by Belgian art historian Michael Francis Gibson, the film is a thriller set in the Renaissance era and revolves around the famous Dutch painter Borugueil's "The Passion".
Borugueil's The Passion
The Mill and the Cross is an art history lesson disguised as a film, and its initial public appearances were made not in movie theaters or film festivals, but in venues like the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Stills from The Mill and the Cross
The paintings in Bruegel's paintings, which are full of customary details at a glance, deal not only with customs, but with the coexistence of suffering, landscape, mystery and man, and the details hidden in history and hidden in its vain attempts are presented in them. Later generations of mystical and existentialists were fascinated by his work.
<h1>Shirley: A Realistic Vision</h1>
Stills from 13 Shirleys: An Illusion of Reality
The film "13 Shirleys: Illusions of Reality" uses 13 famous paintings by American painter Edward Hope to form a realistic landscape of American social history. Shirley, the epitome of an American woman, walked into Hope's paintings and walked through the major historical moments of the 20th century in the United States, witnessing upheavals at all levels: from pearl harbor to World War II, from the McCarthy era and the Cold War to the assassination of President Kennedy and the outbreak of the Vietnam War, from the stock market crash to the economic depression, from Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll to Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe...
Edward Hope, New York Film
Edward Hope is a master of American painting known for depicting the lonely landscapes of contemporary American life. Belonging to the promotion of the urban realistic painting style, he almost became an important American painter after his birthday, and was called the Trash Can School by critics.
<h1>The Girl with the Pearl Earrings</h1>
Poster for the movie "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"
The film "The Girl with the Pearl Earrings", starring widow Scarlett Johannes Vermeer, starring widow Scarlett Johannes Vermeer, tells the story of the world-famous painting "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" modeled by a maid in the family.
Vermeer, "The Girl with the Pearl Earrings"
Vermeer was a master painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and together with Hals and Rembrandt, he was known as the three major painters in the Netherlands. Most of Vermeer's works are paintings of genre themes, basically based on the ordinary life of the citizens.
<h1>Night Watch</h1>
"Night Watch" tells the romantic history and career of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt, and focuses on the creation process of his masterpiece "Night Watch".
Rembrandt
The Night Watch is Rembrandt's most famous and controversial work. Because Rembrandt painted in a more stage-like manner, Night Watch was not popular with the upper class of the time. The painter himself insisted: "The artist's vocation is to create beautiful images, not to calculate how many heads there are." ”
Night Watch
<h1>Frida</h1>
Frida self-portrait
Frida, a six-time Oscar-nominated biopic, is based on a self-portrait by the painter Frida and tells the story of the famous Mexican female painter's short but legendary life experience.
<h1>The Da Vinci Code</h1>
The film Da Vinci Code, based on the suspense novel of the same name by American writer Dan Brown, uses Da Vinci's work as an important clue to the film.
Mona Lisa
In The Da Vinci Code, the Louvre curator Sonnier places himself in the shape of the Vitruvius before his death, both hinting at Da Vinci's relationship with the Hermitage of Mount Phou and providing clues for the protagonist Langdon to crack the vault stone secret. The famous painting "Mona Lisa" can be seen on its protective glass cover under the illumination of black lights.
In addition, famous paintings such as "Our Lady of rocks", "The Last Supper", and "Mary Magdalene" appeared in the film as clues to promote the development of the plot.
<h1>Factory Girl</h1>
Andy Warhol's screen print "Flowers"
This is a biopic by Andy Warhol's muse, Edie Sedgwick, in which many of Andy Warhol's artworks are recreated, including black-and-white films and photography that he experimented with in his early years. In particular, Andy Warhol's signature combination of pop art and screen printing can be fully appreciated by the audience in the film.
<h1>What I See</h1>
"Joker Gill"
From the perspective of Lucy, an art history graduate student, I see the hidden secrets of the Louvre's famous Painting "Gill the Clown" in the Louvre Collection. There are many Oftto masterpieces in the film, and "Joker Gill" is one that plays a crucial role in the plot of the film.
<h1>Inception</h1>
Inception poster
The film "Inception" tells the story of a psychotherapist named Ruben, who is always invaded by the world famous paintings that are "demonized" in his dreams. The way to get a good night's sleep is to steal all the famous paintings that invaded his dreams. In order to escape the nightmare, he joined forces with four skilled patients to steal strange stories from major museums such as the Louvre and the Tate Modern.
The painting style of the whole film leads everyone into the "Picasso era" of three-dimensional, abstract and surrealist painting style with deconstructed and reconstructed painting methods. Also known as "A Wandering of Picasso's Paintings".
There are nearly 100 films and paintings involved in the film, and polish dance music, rock music, jazz, symphony and other musical forms are used to match it.
<h1>Akira Kurosawa's "Dream"</h1>
Akira Kurosawa's Dream consists of 8 short stories, including the short film The Crow, which pays homage to Van Gogh.
Akira Kurosawa's "Dream"
"Road Worker" Van Gogh
When the young painter was looking at Van Gogh's famous paintings, he actually walked into the paintings, and he found Van Gogh painting in the fields. The young painter followed in van Gogh's footsteps and passed through many scenes from Van Gogh's famous paintings. Finally, Van Gogh disappeared into a hillside, and suddenly crows flew from the sky, and the scene suddenly became a painting again, and the young painter found himself still standing in the exhibition hall, in front of the famous painting.
<h1>Midnight in Paris</h1>
Poster of Midnight in Paris
A novelist who is at odds with reality strolls through the streets of Paris at midnight; in a dreamlike atmosphere, a classic car takes him through time and space several times, back to the old days of Paris – in this way, the film "Midnight in Paris" realizes the dialogue between contemporary people and the masters of the golden age of Parisian art. Starting from the poster of the film, the famous works of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Picasso, Degas, Matisse, Dalí and other famous painters appear in turn.
<h1>The Theft of Leonardo da Vinci</h1>
The Woman Holding the Silver Rat
The famous thief Shuma joined the International Group of Painting Thieves in prison. As soon as he was released on parole, the group immediately gave him a "job" to get his hands on Leonardo da Vinci's "The Woman With the Silver Rat," a worldwide client's coveted and priceless masterpiece. So he and his former companion Julian invited the master painter Hagen and his granddaughter Marda, who was very talented for reproduction, to paint a copy of a nearly chaotic imitation. But Shuma did not know that Julian's real purpose was to keep the famous paintings in Poland forever.
<h1>The Spirit of Goya</h1>
The film Spirit of Goya tells the story hidden behind the famous painting Sinola Sabasa Maisia. The girl in the painting who covers her head and shoulders with a cloth is named Ines.
Sinora Sabasa Maihia
Francisco Goya is Spain's most famous painter, specializing in portraits of Spanish kings and queens. When Goya learns that the young girl Inés has been wrongfully imprisoned, she asks her friend Lorenzo for help, hoping that Lorenzo can save Ines' life, but she does not know that this action has pushed Ines into another abyss of pain.
<h1>"Mr. Turner"</h1>
Turner, The Painter and His Admirers
The British painter Joseph Mallard William Turner was so influential on director Mike Lee that he made a film about Turner, Mr. Turner.
A reproduction of The Painter and His Admirers in the film
"Mr. Turner" tells the story of the passionate life of the British painter John Turner, who was once denigrated for his pioneering creative techniques, but Turner regarded painting as a life, and his lifelong masterpieces were full of masterpieces. Considered one of Britain's greatest painters.
In addition to the large number of classic works of Turner in the film, the director also reconstructed some of Turner's scenes in the film and integrated them into the narrative of the film.
<h1>Caravaggio</h1>
Caravaggio's painting Mary Magdalene
Based on the legendary Italian painter Caravaggio, Caravaggio richly depicts his legendary life and explores the relationship between sex, crime and art.
A reproduction of Caravaggio's paintings in the film