simpleposie wants to know:
Which character in what movie is surrounded by the best art?
posted by J@simpleposie
at 5:25 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:06 AM EDT
simpleposie wants to know:
Which character in what movie is surrounded by the best art?
Wednesday, 13 February 2008 - 7:57 PM EST
Name: "Kineko Ivic (via email)"Donald Southerland has a beautiful Joan Mitchell painting behind him in Six Degrees of Separation. Also a Pat Stier among a few others... this is in the scene where they are at the home of a private dealer. Chuck Close (the actual artist himself) is also in this scene.
Thursday, 14 February 2008 - 3:16 PM EST
Name: "L.M."
Thursday, 14 February 2008 - 9:43 PM EST
Name: "Kim"
Jessica Harper in 'Suspiria' is often surrounded by lyrical, serpentine wallpaper or hand-painted (in appearance) motifs. http://whiggles.landofwhimsy.com/images/commentary-suspiria.jpg
Sissy Spacek and Shelly Duval and (some) of the swimming pool murals in '3 Women'. http://www.popmatters.com/images/blogs/short_ends/3Women.jpg
Monday, 18 February 2008 - 10:03 AM EST
Name: "Sheila"
Snow White, because those Dwarves are drawn so simply.
Monday, 18 February 2008 - 3:37 PM EST
Name: "L.M."
The backgrounds for Snow White are pretty gorgeous too:
http://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com/search/label/SNOW%20WHITE
Monday, 18 February 2008 - 10:33 PM EST
Name: "JT"
Willem Dafoe in "To Live and Die in LA" has a bunch of really bad 80's neo-expressionist art around him all the time. He is a painter, a counterfeiter, and all around scary creep. At one point we see him burning a bunch of his own canvases in a darkened loft!
Later he breaks into a rival bad guy's house, looks around at the art the guy has on his wall, and says "Your taste is in your ass." Then shoots him in the head.
Kind of have to admire the dedication to aesthetics there.
Wang Chung did the music!
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 - 5:41 AM EST
Name: "TEAM Art Life (via email)"
Tony Hancock plays a painter of abstract pictures named Anthony Hancock in "Call Me Genius" [aka The Rebel" 1961]. It's a great film for contemporary artists since it doesn't matter that Hancock is a hopeless artist, he totally believes in himself and he's always coming up with new art movements - "Shapism" for example. A younger artist who is much more talented that Hancock falls under his spell and produces great art that is admired by all. Of particular interest is that Hancock's supposedly "bad art" that actually looks a lot like work by any number of contemporary artists.
TEAM Art Life
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 - 12:59 PM EST
Name: "J@simpleposie"
Jarman's Caravaggio had some pretty nice Caravaggio's in it, I must say
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 - 11:33 PM EST
Name: "The Artfag"oh darling, one doesn't even have to pause to think -- any character in any godard movie.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 - 12:12 AM EST
Name: "Gabby"
I've actually been having a really hard time coming up with an answer to this one. I'm tempted to out myself as a hugely dorky lesbian and say that I wouldn't mind having Bette's personal art collection in "The L Word," especially here Kiki Smith prints, like this one:
http://www.harlanandweaver.com/ks2.htm
But, maybe less dorky, I love Miranda July's character's room in "Me and You and Everyone We Know". Most of it's found photos and art and crazy videos she's made, but they're sort of beautiful and her paint colour is amazing.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 - 6:41 AM EST
Name: "lee"Jack Lemon as C.C Bud Baxter in the 1960 movie "The Apartment" by american director Billy wilder
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 - 7:42 AM EST
Name: "J@simpleposie"
Imelda Staunton's Dolores Umbridge has the greatest, kitschiest magical tea time art in her office in Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 - 7:45 AM EST
Name: "J@simpleposie"And Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka has all the great stuff that's cut in half in his office .
Saturday, 23 February 2008 - 7:41 PM EST
Name: "Megan"Oh my gosh, the kittens! So twee and irresistable and horrifying! I agree that they did a really good job with her.
Saturday, 23 February 2008 - 9:34 PM EST
Name: "J@simpleposie"I was seriously impressed!
Monday, 25 February 2008 - 6:58 PM EST
Name: "J@simpleposie"
There are fun scenes of Allen and Keaton at MOMA from Manhattan - somehow the way I remember that movie everyone has a Rothko print or poster in their apartment too.
My actual favourite scenes with protagonists surrounded by art aren't really in the movies but in lit - like on the day Zola's Therese Raquin gets married and makes that promenade to the Louvre. A movie will be released this year - interesting to see how it compares.
