From Canvas to Celluloid
Inspired by the forthcoming film based on Thomas Kinkade's painting, "The Christmas Cottage," Tyler Green has sent out call for folks to list their top five choices for other paintings that should be made into films.
So here goes. Five paintings I think someone should make into a film
Huh, what's that? I can't hear... Ohhhh....
OK, so that was silly and lazy of me...I'll give this more thought. Your ideas?
So here goes. Five paintings I think someone should make into a film
Huh, what's that? I can't hear... Ohhhh....
OK, so that was silly and lazy of me...I'll give this more thought. Your ideas?
posted by Edward_ at
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I think the Kinkade film should include the Seven Dwarves and he himself can play the Wicked Witch.
My vote is for one of Andy's Campbell Soup paintings. Why should product placement always play a supporting role?
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Nighthawks is a great choice.
How about Ed and Nancy Keinholz?
Roy Lichtenstein's painting "I'd Rather Sink Than Ask Brad for Help."
If you're willing to open this up to sculpture, Tracy Emin's defunct "Everyone I've Ever Slept With" could make a good Sundance indie.
No, wait! The Nancy Baker painting where aliens invade the medieval village. That's got "summer blockbuster" written all over it.
The Girl With the Pearl Earring was a great novel and film!
How about one of Ad Reinhardt's Black Paintings? I like this one. And you can zoom in on it!
The Large Glass
(I think that is already a Burger King commercial)
D'amoiselles d'Avignon (or however you spell it)
One:Number 31 (Pollock)
Three Chairs (Kosuth)
Flag (Johns)
Hey Ed:
Eve Sussman just made The Rape of the Sabine Women.
Susan Seidelman made a short film in 1994 The Dutch Master (27min)
It was Nominated for an Oscar in 1994, as the Best Short Film, Live Action
The plot centered around a basically normal New York woman who visits an art museum and becomes fascinated by a painting depicting a 17th-century household. It becomes an obsession and she imagines herself walking into the world of the painting…
I helped build the "17th-century Dutch interior" set.
The scenic managed to make a not so little "Dutch master painting", from a photograph of the set, in 3 days. It was better than most gallery fare.
So… I had to wrap my head around this...
The set designer designed a set from a composite of Dutch period paintings.
We used his drawing to build and decorate a set of the period Dutch room.
The actors were staged in the set we made, and a photograph was taken.
The photograph was made into a painting.
The painting was filmed in a set, with the illusion of the actress ‘walking into the painting’
Which of course was only the set we made, and the whole thing was caught on film
Funny thing, I never saw the film.
Funny thing, I never saw the film.
What I want to see are stills from the film, or maybe paintings based on them :)
For a film: Pieter BRUEGEL "The Hunters in the Snow", "Winter Landscape with Bird Trap", "The Harvesters" All created in 1565.
I believe that painting (bruegel) was featured both literaly and metaphorically in Tarkovsky's wonderful "Solaris"
how about the Death of Sardanapalus ?
"The Scream" by Munch
This Bruegel painting could also work
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bruegel/mad_meg.jpg.html
Eve Sussman just made The Rape of the Sabine Women.
Further evidence that my joke was poorly planned...all those paintings have inspired films (actually the last one, just a title, but it should inspire a film). That was the joke...see, it's funny because...nevermind...
I won't quit my day job for a tour of the comedy circuit anytime soon...don't worry.
You mean just one work artist wonder Eve Sussman of Brooklyn?
(the majority's position on issues like gay rights is beginning to dwindle).
sounds like somebody's jealous to me... ;-)
George, I saw "The Dutch Master" years ago. It was wonderful. You guys did a great job.
Edward,
Sorry, missed your joke completely!
Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow, Ickarus, and others, are featured prominently in Tarkovsky's Solaris.
woops, thats right sven, the whole movie is really an expanded meditation on hunters in the snow....beautiful....
I've always thought that Andrew Wyeth's work was very cinematic in an enigmatic way. Imagine "Christina's World" come to life. Maybe she finally gets up the hill to the creepy old house.
Or you could reverse engineer any of those Cindy Sherman photos that look like old-time movie stills.
--Bob
ArtBlogByBob.blogspot.com
What was that movie with Robin Williams where he was literally swimming himself through Van Gogh-ish landscapes?
I want to make the urinal into a movie.
Lisa: that roy painting was sort of emulated in the last James Bond film.
I like the guy who did a video game out of Broadway Boogie Woogie:
http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/broadway_boogie_woogie_play.html
Cheers,
Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com
Come on here. You mean nobody thinks that Bruegel's Mad Meg would make a great movie. It depicts an army of women invading and sacking hell.
I'm curious to know what movies would make for a good painting.
To Henry:
Mother And Son by Sokourov
Cedric
Top Five Paintings That Should Be Made Into Films, by Bill Gusky:
5. The Entry of Christ into Brussels (Ensor)
4. The Ship of Fools (Bosch)
3. Guernica
2. The Epic of American Civilization (Orozco)
1. Nighthawks (Hopper)
Figure Five in Gold would make a terrific, if short, movie.
And I'd wait in line for sure to watch a film based on Marc Quinn's Self.
I've written up scenarios for four movies from paintings over at my place (ArtBlogByBob.blogspot.com). Interested parties for development should contact my agent. As I said, I'm not greedy. I'd settle for "Bruce Willis money."
Bob, I'd like to propose Don Knotts as the father for American Gothic. I think he might be dead, but that may not be a problem. All I ask is a small casting fee. I'll have my people call your people, as soon as I get some people.
Hey-did anyone hear that Forman is releasing "Goya's Ghost" in July 07?
I just saw a film clip and almost tossed my cookies, graphic torture by the catholic church, starring natalie portman writing and crying, a lot.
-heidilolatheayatollah
David,
Don Knotts is an inspired, if decomposing choice. He'd at least be cheaper than Alan Arkin, especially after Little Miss Sunshine. That would definitely leave more money for us to split, 90-10 as I see it. Deal or no deal?
--Bob (ArtBlogByBob.blogspot.com)
jeff wall's already theatrical cinematic dramatic embellished photogtraphs. screaming to be films.
Bob, deal!
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