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The Art Lovers: Directed by Michael O'Herlihy. With Jack Kelly, James Garner, James Westerfield, Jack Cassidy. Mona Lisa rescues Bart from being an indentured servant, after Bart loses a high stakes poker game between nouveau riche art collectors.
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René Magritte. The Lovers. Paris 1928. In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the artist invokes the cinematic cliché of a close–up kiss but subverts our voyeuristic pleasure by shrouding the faces in cloth.
Feb 7, 2024 · For me, despite Magritte’s disavowal of meaning, The Lovers emerges as an artistic interpretation of the act of loving: the yearning for intimacy, the challenges of communication, and the ongoing struggle with autonomy. Being intimate without ever truly touching, these lovers exist alone yet together.
- René Magritte, The Lovers I
- René Magritte, The Lovers II
- Lovers III and Lovers IV
In The Lovers I, a man and a woman press their faces close together in an affectionate gesture, almost as if they were in a family portrait. It could be a breezy, Instagram-like holiday snapshot with a lovely forest and sea in the background. Only, there is a cloth that drapes on their faces, forming curls over their shoulders like ropes. Due to th...
The second version of The Loversis similarly composed but with a more disturbing tension—in this version, it comes to show as the man and woman, dressed as they were in the original, lean in for a loving embrace—a kiss. Their attempt is again muffled by the white fabric. Unlike the pastoral scene of the previous painting, here, a much more abstract...
The two other versions of the Lovers are lesser known because they are in private collections. Also, without the white cloth, the figures seem less off-putting to the viewer, but they are also very thought-provoking in their own right. We may presume that the couple in this painting is the same as in the previous ones. The woman is wearing the same...
- Frida, Amazon Prime and Netflix. This film is a graphic biopic about the controversial and tragic life of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, played by Salma Hayek.
- Pollock, Amazon Prime. This may be the most well known movie for art lovers on the planet. But this 2000 classic earns its keep. Jackson Pollock was the bad boy of the postwar New York art world, a testosterone-fueled society of brash artists.
- Caravaggio, Netflix. Caravaggio was the bad boy of the Baroque period in art history. He lead a life of violence and intrigue. He murdered a man and may have been murdered himself.
- Who Killed Caravaggio? , YouTube. This four part BBC documentary takes a look at whether our troubled Caravaggio may have been murdered. Most historians think he died at age 37 of a physical ailment — complications from constant boozing, lead poisoning from his paints, malaria, etc.
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Feb 10, 2017 · Whether forged in stone or suspended in a snapshot, lovers smolder throughout art history. Below, artists from Jean-Honoré Fragonard to Gustav Klimt to Frida Kahlo reveal the many faces of love—affectionate and ferocious, monogamous and polyamorous, fleeting and timeless.
1. French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, reminding us that sometimes we fall in love at first sight, and sometimes not... Romance (1988) by Dan Dailey Huntington Museum of Art. 2. Dan...
