Don't make a movie to do an exhibition? These 5 filmmakers pushed open the door of the art museum with their own works 1 The "genius filmmaker" who had a car accident became a "Sunday painter" 2 In addition to film creation, his life is to paint, paint and paint 3 He was originally an artist 4 He made a movie with eight nominations and three awards, painted for more than 40 years but for more than 20 years no one cared about 5 "a generation of masters" in the field of film, his film itself is a work of art

Austria's most prestigious museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, recently announced that it will bring an extraordinary exhibition, The Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures. The person who curated the exhibition and took the nickname of the exhibition is not a professional curator, but the film director Wes Anderson and his partner, Juman Malouf, a talented Lebanese woman who is also a costume designer.

The two curators will select their favorites from a collection of more than four million pieces, from mummies from ancient Egypt, weapons and armor and antique instruments from ancient Greece and Rome, to paintings by European masters, and director Wes Anderson's unique style will be recreated in the gallery. It is rare for filmmakers to enter art museums as curators, but what about artists? YT This takes you to see how the movie Dreamer entered the art museum.

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<h1>The "genius filmmaker" who had a car accident started as a "Sunday painter"</h1>

A "genius filmmaker" who is an actor, screenwriter, and director, and the soul of Japan's cross-talk boom in the 1980s, in addition to these accolades, Takeshi Kitano now also denounces himself as a "Sunday painter" (amateur painter).

Takeshi Kitano and his works

In 1994, Takeshi Kitano was in a car accident and spent seven months recuperating at home. Idle, he suddenly wanted to learn to draw, and he really started to paint. Turned into a flower's head, bright colors, Kitano Takeshi said that he was engaged in the creation of "surrealist painting".

Takeshi Kitano: The Painter's Child (Beat Takeshi Kitano, Gosse de Peintre)

In 2010, Takeshi Kitano also held a solo exhibition "Beat Takeshi Kitano, Gosse de Peintre" at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. This is also the first time he appeared in front of the public as an artist.

Takeshi Kitano exhibits "Painter's Child" at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris

In the 2010 exhibition dedicated to the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, all of his installations, films, and paintings revolve around childlike childlike fun, clichés of Japanese culture, and what we are all too familiar with: Kitano Takeshi's black humor. Walking into this wonderful paradise, viewers will see a variety of whimsical installations, whimsical paintings, films and other works.

Takeshi Kitano said, "I want you to have fun like a child at the exhibition!" In fact, it's something I've never done before. As for art, I'm not sure what it is. You can't say, I make a living as an art. My professional attitude towards art is sincerity, not over-exaggeration. In France and Europe, people take this kind of thing seriously, and if they lie, they will immediately show their stuffing. I just want to be honest and say: this is me, this is my level. ”

Eight years later, his work came to Shanghai, and in the Cartier Contemporary Art Foundation's exhibition "Cartier Contemporary Art Foundation: Strange Landscapes" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, we can see Takeshi Kitano's representative works, a series of vases that combine animal and flower images. He combines animals and flowers, subtly appropriating and subverting the art of flower arrangement. There are also paintings depicting fictional colorful monsters, as well as calligraphy, a film designed to mock Westerners' clichés about Japan.

In 1997, three years after the car accident, Takeshi Kitano's self-directed "Hanabi" came out, and among the works exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, these paintings have appeared as early as his 1997 film "Hanabi".

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<h1>In addition to filmmaking, his life is to paint, to paint and to paint</h1>

The mention of "Rubberhead", "Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet", "Mulholland Road" will refer to the director of these works, David Lynch. What is he busy with now, having been facing the public as a director?

David Lynch

The answer is: "Draw". In 2016, a documentary about David Lynch, David Lynch: The Art Life, came out, and in the film we can see him in the studio, except sometimes writing about filmmaking, most of the time he is painting, in an article interviewing the film's director Jon Nguyen said: "From the time he wakes up in the morning to the time he goes to bed at night, in addition to film work, David did nothing but paint. ”

Excerpt from the David Lynch: The Art Life documentary

Also at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition Fonda Foundation for Contemporary Art: Strange Landscapes, twenty of David Lynch's lithographs were also on display, and these works also bear the dark and eerie style of David Lynch's films.

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Apichatpong Welasha

The name Apichatpong may be unfamiliar to many people. But it was this controversial Thai film director who, in less than a decade, won the Cannes One Kind of Attention Award (2002), the Main Competition Jury Award (2007) and the Palme d'Or (2010) with "Blessings", "Tropical Disease" and "Uncle Boumi Who Can Recall Past Lives", respectively, becoming the world's most famous Asian director.

The Serenity of Madness, installation view, MCAD, 2017, courtesy of MCAD.

The identities of director and artist seem to have always coexisted in him. In fact, Apichatpong's video career began with experimental video and video installations. In 1994 Apichatpong began to create films and short films, completing his first feature film in 2000. Having exhibited and arranged installations in several countries since 1998, he is now more like an international visual artist.

One of his works in the monument, one of his solo exhibitions at ShanghART Gallery in Shanghai in 2017, async – The First Light. This is a one-way video of Apichatpong working with Ryuichi Sakamoto. The audience trapped in the beanie sofa may gradually fall asleep with the people in the video and walk into the "dream" compiled by Apichatpong.

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<h1>He made a film with eight nominations and three awards, and painted for more than forty years but no one for more than twenty years</h1>

Julian Schnabel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951. His first film was the biographical film Silent Cry by artist Basquia. The second work is "Before Nightfall," which describes the life story of the Cuban poet Renardo Arenas. His third film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won him the Best Director Award at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (2017). Image: ©Julian Schnabel Studio, photo by Tom Powel Imaging, courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

This year, Schnabel also held an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art on the West Coast of the United States. In this way, the star of the film industry wants to let people know that in addition to film creation, he has actually been painting.

This was not Schnabel's first exhibition, as he had already had a solo exhibition in 1979. But as art critic Raphael Rubinstein put it in a 2011 essay in American Art magazine, "The Big Picture: Reconsidering Julian Schanbel": "Perhaps the film's achievements overshadowed his paintings." This situation, which lasted for more than 20 years from 1987 and where no museum in the United States had a solo exhibition of Schnabel's work, was broken in 2013. Schnabel's use of different materials and his diverse painting patterns also became an important embodiment of Neo-Expressionism in the United States.

In recent years, Schnabel has also enjoyed the renewed attention.

"Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life" at the Legion of Honor exhibition. Image by Moanalani Jeffrey, courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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<h1>The "grandmaster of a generation" in the field of cinema, his film itself is a work of art</h1>

Who do you think the "generation of masters" in the field of kung fu is? Ip Man or Huang Feihong? Who do you think of when it comes to the "generation of grandmasters" in the field of film?

A photograph of Liu Jialiang when he was young

This year is the fifth year of the death of director Liu Jialiang, who has made great contributions to the Hong Kong kung fu film industry, he was born in a kung fu family, is the descendant of the southern kung fu Hong Jia Quan, later, he Liu Jialiang with his father into the film industry, first as an extra actor, field note, dragon and tiger martial artist, stand-in, and finally have the opportunity to become an important martial arts director, starring, director. In 2010, Lau Ka-leung won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Mad Monkey Kung Fu (Mad Monkey Kung Fu), 1979 Liu Jialiang's self-directed and self-acting work, the actors are a collection of the most popular martial arts stars of the year, Luo Lie, Xiao Hou and their beloved apprentice Hui Yinghong and others

In his honor, MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized a solo retrospective, The Grandmaster: Lau Kar-leung. Starting from the 10 classic works filmed by director Liu Jialiang, the exhibition shows the director who plays a pivotal role in the kung fu film industry to the audience in an all-round way.

Lu Acai and Huang Feihong (Challenge of the Masters), 1976 The film tells the story of the young Huang Feihong's youth before he became famous, and it is the first time to interpret this generation of masters from this perspective alone.

La Frances Hui, Director of the MoMA Film Exhibition, said: "The kung fu films directed by Lau Ka Leung are different from the general ones, and the details he focuses on are not only to entertain the audience, but also to educate the general public about the true meaning of kung fu. ”

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