Some people say, "Art comes from life"; others say, "Life imitates art". As long as you have the heart to look for, renaissance world famous paintings and modern niche classic films are similar, identical, or even completely consistent pictures, abound.
In order to make films, directors often draw inspiration from all aspects of life, and among these sources of inspiration, the art of painting is undoubtedly a huge treasure. The color matching, composition, lighting, and the layout and expression of the characters in the art of painting are all objects that the director learns and learns from in shooting films.
A foreign video producer, Vugar Efendi, is keen to sort out the tributes to painting masterpieces in the film. He produced two videos before and after, comparing the masterpiece of the painting with the film clips that imitated it. The two videos combine 23 masterpieces of painting and their corresponding film clips.
John Constabeuer, Malvern Hall, Warwickshire – Stanley Kubrick, Barry Linden
Old Bregel's "Babelta" – Fritz Lang," "Metropolis"
Wood's Tender Corn – Terry Gilliam's Magical Fantasy Show
The video is viewed together as a journey of painting art, and it can also be seen as a list of high-pressure films. Godard, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Quentin, von Trier, Paul Thomas Anderson and many more, in the video you can see how these great directors pay homage to these masterpieces. There are many familiar movie scenes in the video, and the more familiar you are with the scene, the more surprised you will often be: the original picture was born from the painting.
Otto Dix, Portrait of journalist Sylvia vonhard – Bob Fox, "The Cabaret"
odd nerdrum "Dawn" – Tasim Sheen, "Invasion of Brain Cells"
Jacques Louis David's Death of Marat – Alexander Payne's About Schmidt
Jack Louis Davitt, Napoleon Across the St. Bernard Pass in the Alps – Sophia Coppola, Lost in Tokyo
Francisco José de Goya Lucientes, "Duelo a garrotazos" – Bigus Luna, "Ham, Ham"
Can you recognize these films and paintings? In addition to learning and imitating the techniques in painting, these masterpieces can sometimes inspire directors to create, giving them a different perspective on the world.
Portrait of Francis Bacon
Art inspires cinema, and cinema inspires art. Many outstanding films have actually been inspired by the best artists in history. Whether on the Louvre or on the first page of an online search, the most beautiful paintings and sculptures in history have been a source of inspiration for our greatest cinematic works. From Christopher Nolan's fascination with Francis Bacon, this inspired the Costume of the Joker in The Dark Knight.
The Joker's makeup in Batman: The Dark Knight
London's Tate launched and filmed a very interesting series of videos called "Film Meets Art". The video series will feature several well-known British directors and ask them to talk about which outstanding painters inspired their work.
The British painter Joseph Mallard William Turner was so influential on director Mike Lee that the latter made a film about Turner, Mr. Turner.
Movie "Mr. Turner"
In addition to the large number of classic works of Turner in the film, Mike Lee also reconstructed some of Turner's painting scenes in the film and integrated them into the narrative of the film.
Turner's painting "The Man Who Plays Billiards"
A reproduction of Turner's painting The Man Who Played Billiards in the film
The Painter and His Admirers
A reproduction of The Painter and His Admirers in the film
Ken Lodge said that the greatest influence on his work was the British painter William Hogarth. Among them, william Hogarth's paintings impressed him most with the portrayal of the expressions of the characters. He said that the expressions of the people in William Hogarth's portrait depicted the sentient beings of the underclass and also felt a kind of greatness. From the expressions of the characters in the painting, you seem to be able to see his life.
William Hogarth, The Heads of The Six Servants of Hogarth
Rocky says most portrait painters tend to focus too much on gorgeous clothes rather than the faces of the characters, and he tries to avoid such things from happening in his film work. He said the construction workers in his film Life at the Bottom were "William Hogarthian."
The film "13 Shirleys: Illusions of Reality" recreates 13 famous paintings by American painter Edward Hope depicting the lonely contemporary life landscapes of the United States, and is also a reflection of the historical style of the United States.
Movie "13 Shirleys: An Illusion of Reality"
The poster for the movie is a reproduction of Edward Hope's Morning Sun.
In some films, the director will deliberately imitate some famous works in some shots, which is called "tribute" in another way. This practice has gradually become known as a special taste in movies, and it is also a sharp weapon to enhance the force of movies.
Night Watch is directed by Peter Greenaway and starred Martin Freeman. The film is based on the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt and focuses on the creation process of his masterpiece "Night Watch".
Rembrandt's famous painting "Night Watch"
A remake of Night Watch in the film
Like Van Gogh and Caravaggio, the colors and light in their paintings are often amazing. Sometimes it's hard to imagine what a movie would be like if they lived in the present. The influence of painting on film is multifaceted, and most of the time, this influence is invisible and subtle.
New York Movies
A re-enactment of the New York Film in the film
Adapted from the novel by Belgian art historian Michael Francis Gibson, The Mill and the Cross is a thriller set in the Renaissance era and revolves around the famous Dutch painter Borugueil's Passion Road.
Borugueil's masterpiece The Passion
A reproduction of the painting "The Passion" in the film
Art is interconnected, and film directors often draw inspiration from other art forms, borrowing, copying, and paying tribute.
"For me, the picture is the life of the film. However, today's film industry forces directors to constantly add text to films, because production companies no longer believe in pictures. So Godard said that as a filmmaker, creating a text is a must, but as soon as you find an investment, immediately abandon the text, the picture is the meaning of the film. Director Peter Greenaway said.
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[Editor, text/Duan Qiqi]