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Cinematic Caravaggism

Few painters - if any - got such strong influence on modern cinema as Caravaggio, and it was Derek Jarman's film Caravaggio (1986) that got myself hooked on Caravaggio's art.

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Another great cinematic Caravaggist in the generation before Jarman was Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Two more moviemaking Caravaggio-fans are director/screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese.
 
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Two more moviemaking Caravaggio-fans are director/screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese.

Wow have never noticed that, or looked their movies with that in mind. Have to watch some movies when I have time:p
 

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Wow have never noticed that, or looked their movies with that in mind. Have to watch some movies when I have time:p

I didn't find out about the Caravaggio-Schrader-Scorsese-connections until I read -quite recently - Andrew Graham-Dixon's biography on Caravaggio, who has an interview with Scorsese on Caravaggio-matters.

It was Schrader who introduced Scorsese to the Italian painter when they co-operated on "Taxi Driver" and he's quite explicit about Caravaggio as a deep source of inspiration to Scorsese's movie making - in particular on the controversial late 1980s film "The last temptation of Christ", of which Scorsese says : " - The idea was to do Jesus like Caravaggio."

And since Scorsese have been great friends with Robert de Niro for ages, I wouldn't be too astonished to find out de Niro as a great Caravaggio-fan... But that's not Graham-Dixon talking, that's just my own musings...
 

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Allright now I really have to see that Derek Jarmans Caravaggio! Googled it a bit, and it seems really interesting:p
 

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Adoration of the Lamb : Jan van Eyck (1390-1441)

Jan van Eyck's altarpiece "Adoration of the Lamb" - painted in the early 1430s - is one of the very first oil paintings in the history of European art.

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A fascinating thing about the van Eyck altarpiece is, that it still resides in the very room for which it was painted in the 1430s - St. Baaf Cathedral in Gent, Belgium. And beneath the cathedral is a photo of the altarpiece taken in it's room in St Baaf!
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If you wanna see more van Eyck, you can go 30 min by train from Gent to Brügge/Brughes and visit the wonderful Groeninge Museum!
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Flemish primitive (15th century)

Jan van Eyck belonged to a tradition of painting baptized "Flemish Primitive" by 19th century art historian. I don't think it's a good name, pretty silly actually, and tells us more about 19th century historians than about the paintings, but the name stuck.

The Flemish Primitives were many: Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Dierck Bouts, Hugo van der Goes and Hans Memling were among the most important.

Robert Campin 1375-1444

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Rogier van der Weyden 1400-1464

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Dieric Bouts 1415-1475

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Hugo van der Goes 1430-1482

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Hans Memling 1435-1494

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Abstract Expressionism (1940s - 1960s)

Jackson Pollock 1912-1956

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Barnett Newman 1905-1970

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Mark Rothko 1903-1970

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Jan van Eyck's altarpiece "Adoration of the Lamb" - painted in the early 1430s - is one of the very first oil paintings in the history of European art.

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If anyone is actually going to Gent, there is also a fine Michelangelo Madonna in the church of Our Lady.
 

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Jan van Eyck's altarpiece "Adoration of the Lamb" - painted in the early 1430s - is one of the very first oil paintings in the history of European art.

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If anyone is actually going to Gent, there is also a fine Michelangelo Madonna in the church of Our Lady.

Hrrmmm...when I visited Gent and Brügge twice in mid-1990s, the wonderful Michelangelo Madonna resided in the Onze Liewe Vrouw Kerk (church of Our Lady, hence what germans would name Marienkirche) in BRÜGGE (close to the Oud Sint Jan-hospital), not in Gent. But both cities are so great if you have any kind of interest for art, architecture and cultural history.
 

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Kazimir Malevitch (1879-1935): Suprematism

Malevitch self-portrait 1910

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Early figurative Malevitch
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Full blown Suprematism
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Look at the Black Square in the upper right hand corner, just beneath the ceiling, in the picture from a contemporary Malevitch-exhibition!

Why put a painting in such a strange place? Because in a traditional Russian peasants house, that's the place for a venerated orthodox icon!

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Hrrmmm...when I visited Gent and Brügge twice in mid-1990s, the wonderful Michelangelo Madonna resided in the Onze Liewe Vrouw Kerk (church of Our Lady, hence what germans would name Marienkirche) in BRÜGGE (close to the Oud Sint Jan-hospital), not in Gent. But both cities are so great if you have any kind of interest for art, architecture and cultural history.[/QUOTE]

Special for Gorgik.

 

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Hrrmmm...when I visited Gent and Brügge twice in mid-1990s, the wonderful Michelangelo Madonna resided in the Onze Liewe Vrouw Kerk (church of Our Lady, hence what germans would name Marienkirche) in BRÜGGE (close to the Oud Sint Jan-hospital), not in Gent. But both cities are so great if you have any kind of interest for art, architecture and cultural history.

Special for Gorgik.

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Thanks a lot Ioanna! I climbed all the stairs to the top of that majestic belfry - that's some view!!!
 

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Dante and Virgil in Hell


Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Innocent X Francis Bacon


Francisco Goya - Saturn Devouring his Son
 

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Sovjet Constructivism (1920s)

Sovjet constructivism is the conventional name of an immense outpouring of revolutionary artistic creativity that got strangeled by Stalin in the 1930s.

The constructivists - together with suprematists, futurists and cubo-futurist - wanted to END this old tired instution called ART. They wanted to make a serious break with all the old fashioned stuffy thing called art, so together with poets like Vladimir Majakovskij, Osip and Lilly Brik and David Burljuk, and cinematographers like Sergej Eisenstein and theater directors like Vsevolod Meyerchold, the constuctivist artists wanted to take their art elsewhere - not into painting and sculpture, but into photography, graphics design, advertising, designing journals and magazines, book cover design, fashion design and designing furniture and all different kinds of industrial products.

Together with Deutsche Werkbund and Bauhaus in Germany, De Stijl in Holland and the group of functionalist artists and architects in the Scandinavian countries, they started visual modernity in our cities and our homes. But the Sovjet construcivists probably were the most radical of them all. So here we go :

Aleksander Rodchenko 1891-1956

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Lyubov Popova 1889-1924

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El Lissitsky 1890-1941

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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

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Early figurative Mondrian

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