The best known one is a forty minute motion
painting film titled Kill The Ego.
Not exact matches
The opening credits feature a baby's fingertip reaching out to touch the
title of the
film, just like the famous Sistine Chapel
painting of God and Adam brushing fingertips (the image becomes even more confrontational when it's repeated, with Darwin touching the finger of an orangutan).
For a spell, it feels as if the
film will transcend the unpromising irony of its
title with a female protagonist
painted as unflattering and tortured, but by the time the final credits roll after an unforgivable third act, Murder by Numbers washes out as just another imminently forgettable movie starring Sandra Bullock.
The
film's
title is inspired by a David Hockney
painting, a work that provides mystery in suggestion as the only sign of a protagonist is a splash and an empty chair, asking the spectator to provide the rest.
Even the
title of the
film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story
paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.
Walter and Margaret Keane rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s for their kitsch
paintings, characterized by figures of children with unusually large eyes (hence the
film's
title).
Its mere presence is refreshing after suffering through too many denoised Disney
titles; so much of the background texture, not to mention the
film's hand -
painted charm, is bound up in the stuff that filtering it out would be pure revisionism — and, I suspect, wreak havoc on the already photographically - soft detail.
It starts with Kool & the Gang's «Celebration,» the
film's
titles splashed against the bright lavender -
painted cement of the motel, and how different viewers might interpret that choice of song could predict how they'll respond to the
film entire.
Le Mépris, Luc Tuymans» exhibition of new
paintings at David Zwirner Gallery, takes its evocative
title from a Godard
film of the same name.
In his first L.A. museum exhibition, Simmons
paints the
titles of race
films on five large walls as part of a site - specific installation in CAAM's grand entrance.
The exhibition will be an ambitious installation in which Grasso transforms the gallery into an immersive environment, a multimedia labyrinth that includes new sculpture,
paintings, photographs, neon works and video (the eponymously
titled film will make its US debut in this exhibition).
Shezad Dawood: Towards the Possible Film comprises a group of recently executed light sculptures, an installation of large scale
paintings on textile, and two
films, one of which, Towards the Possible Film, gives its
title to the exhibition and will have its UK premiere at Parasol unit.
The work,
titled «Free» is a site - specific installation and was inspired by Rubell's recent visit to Savannah as well as a broad range of ideas from communion and the Annunciation to Le Corbusier's church at Ronchamp, artists Mark Rothko and Donald Judd, and Hans Namuth's
film of Jackson Pollock
painting.
Kass» Warholesque
paintings of Streisand in Yeshiva drag from the
film Yentl,
titled My Elvis, are an example of the artist's genre - and gender - bending sensibility.
Her fascinating life story became an instant magnet for her exhibitions, while the unique circumstances of Herrera's
paintings were crowned with a 2014 documentary
film by a famous director Alison Klayman,
titled appropriately as The 100 Years Show.
Shown downstairs in dialogue with the
paintings are a group of black and white prints from pornographic spreads of women censored by DVD and CD music and
film titles and scanning barcodes.
With references to abstract expressionism and the action
painting of the 1960s, process rather than product is of central importance to West's work, a fact supported by the lengthy
titles given to each
film which act as thorough, even pedantic narrative accompaniments to the work, elucidating the abstract marks onscreen as the
films are literally infused by the materials only through their
titles.
With an exhibition
title like «Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959 — 1971,» you'd expect to find a show featuring classic
paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and
films that once might have graced the pages of Artforum, the influential art journal which, like the gallery in question, migrated from Los Angeles to New York during the late 1960s.
Painting and sculpture predominate, but archival
films feature the artist waxing philosophical on his practice in a studio filled with unorthodox materials and, in a vintage broadcast
titled Tele - Mack from 1969, patrolling the Tunisian desert alone in a silver suit.
On view at Incline Gallery is a three - person show
titled This Island Earth, featuring
paintings by Alexander Cheves and Walter Logue, and
film and collage by Paul Clipson.
Referencing the cinematic work of French
film - noir director Jean - Luc Godard through the
title of one of his most famous movies, Le Mépris (Contempt), Mr. Tuymans reflects on the filmmaker's themes of isolation, melancholy and nostalgia in these
paintings of murky waters and floats in a flower parade.
In his first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, Simmons's «canvas» will be the five large 440 - square - foot walls in CAAM's grand lobby, where he is creating a site - specific
painting that includes
titles of vintage silent
films that feature all — African American casts.
Displayed in the manner of white
paint on a black chalkboard using Simmons's signature «erasure technique,» each panel extends a list of
film titles, embedding decontextualized information into the museum's interior.
And don't miss the Peter Fischi and David Weiss 16 mm
film (transferred to video)
titled The Way Things Go (1987) and Jim Hodges's gold leaf
painting and still this (2005 - 08).
The influence of the liquid metal T - 1000 character in James Cameron's
film Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), to which Rae refers, can also be seen in the
title and fluctuating black and white forms of Rae's contemporaneous
painting Untitled (T1000) 1996, which was exhibited alongside Untitled (emergency room) at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in 1996, as part of the group show About Vision: New British Painting in th
painting Untitled (T1000) 1996, which was exhibited alongside Untitled (emergency room) at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in 1996, as part of the group show About Vision: New British
Painting in th
Painting in the 1990s.
The «X» of the
title, however, refers not just to the pattern made by the chair's frame, and to the pornographic
film rating, but also to a traditional compositional structure in
painting.
Determined to introduce motion into
painting, Mr. Breer had already begun making stop - action
films,
titled «Form Phases,» based on motifs from his
paintings.
Das and Sharma have included
painting, sculpture and
film works by 16 artists, including Krishna and Judy Blum Reddy, Nirode Mazumdar (from whose memoir the show gets its
title), Zarina Hashmi, Akbar Padamsee, and even
film editor Lila Lakshmanan, who worked with Jean - Luc Godard for over nearly a decade on some of his most famous
films, such as À bout de soufflé (Breathless, 1960) and, Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman, 1961).
The transformation of the
film title into Painters Panting reveals something of the exhibition's focus — the exasperation with and ongoing passion about «
painting concerns» as evinced by painters, photographers, video artists, and filmmakers.
The
title of this exhibition, On Any Sunday, references the personal nature of the words that Abbott includes in his text - based
paintings, and is the
title of a mid-1970s documentary
film on motorcycle culture that Abbott's father had a cameo role in.