Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically articulate her own pain. Kahlo was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo was born [...]
Posts under ‘Film’
Just call him 'Goya'…
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in [...]
Crossing over…
When an artist takes a painting in one medium and creates a version of it in another medium…we wouldn’t expect the second to be identical to the first. It only makes sense for differences to surface, right? So why do people raise such a fuss over book-turned-movie? Here’s a really great article from The Curator…read [...]
The Fall
This is the single best review I have seen of the 2008 film The Fall. Here’s part of it…along with the theatrical trailer. An artfully done film given far too little appreciation… “I had never heard of The Fall. My partner Joe had been reading good things about it, but since it had barely had a [...]
Walt Disney
Some of the story that made the artist…. (from Wikipedia.com) Walter Elias Disney was born in 1901 to Elias Disney an Irish-Canadian, and Flora Call Disney, of German-American descent in Chicago’s Hermosa community area. In 1917, Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and began taking night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. [...]
Benjamin Button
Ok…there’s a lot of technology-lingo to get through here, but the persistance and dedication of these people to the process of this film is inspiring! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUIfiLplNqQ&feature=channel_page]
Free Online Movie – Rembrandt
Yes, it’s an older film. 1936. Makes it that much better Watch it HERE. “Released in 1936, and directed by Alexander Korda, Rembrandt was originally intended as the first of a series of biographies of great painters (no further such films appeared). It was the first film to be shot entirely at London Films’ huge [...]
Sundance Institute – Director's Lab
Found these videos…if you’re interested in film – making it or watching it – even if you’re not interested in film, this is great to watch. Observe the learning process. The birthing and breaking of ideas… There are apparently more videos available – I haven’t found them. So enjoy these four… (Advisory: There is limited [...]
