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Goya, Dalí, Edvard Munch... discover the famous paintings that influenced some of cinema's most iconic film scenes.
- Karen Mercado
- René Magritte
- Edward Hopper
- M. C. Escher
One favorite artist of film directors is Rene Magritte, one of the masters of Surrealism. His suggestive paintings are set in parallel worlds and portray both impossible situations and faceless characters, as if in a dream. Yet Magritte wanted to represent our reality and its mysteries, playing with the viewer and taking apart the world we all know...
Edward Hopperwas a painter, exponent of American Realism, who was able to represent the life of American people in the 19th century in a very peculiar way. For example, the cold light and tones, the geometries, and the characters’ loneliness reveal a soundless and empty world. His works convey a sense of anguish, maybe because the people and the bu...
If Hopper wanted to represent the normal reality around him, Escher did the opposite however. Through his woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints he tried to break down, analyze or overturn the laws of science. His impossible, symmetric geometries and objects explored mathematical and scientific concepts, defying space, time and gravity.
Cinematography (from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma) 'movement' and γράφειν (gráphein) 'to write, draw, paint, etc.') is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
- Manuel Alberto Claro. There are a few popular YouTube videos that identify movie shots explicitly inspired by paintings. Cinephiles call this sort of shot a tableau vivant, or “living picture”—a live-action recreation of a still image.
- John Alcott. Cinematographers don’t only recreate specific images, of course; sometimes, they turn to a broader group of paintings in search of a mood no movie has managed to capture.
- Babette Mangolte. In her cinematography for the landmark experimental films Jean Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and News From Home (1977), Babette Mangolte made banality look extraordinary.
- Conrad Hall. Few great cinematographers have had longer careers than Conrad Hall, who, in 1970, won an Oscar for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969),and decades later nabbed two more, for American Beauty (1999) and Road to Perdition (2002).
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