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Scenes like a paintings Kubricks sense of art in
arry Lyndon
Suspension of disbelief, ideas geometry, and the 1700s as no one has ever seen before: Barry
Lyndonis not only one of the summits of New Yorker directors career, and neither one of
the milestones of entire history of cinema. The movie seems rather one of the most
important and meaningful works of art of the 20thcentury, where intersecting medium-late
English and European painting of 1700s, British literature of 1800s, experimental
photography and cinema. A phylum- starting to canvases by Thomas Gainsborough, William
Hogarth, George Stubbs, ntoine Watteau, to get to the works by Johann Joseph Zoffany,
John ConstableeJohann Heinrich Fssli,passing through the literary filter of The Luck of
Barry Lyndonby William Makepeace Thackeray and an original use of photographic medium
- that caused the myth for which in Barry Lyndonthe shots would be imitations of classical
paintings. After a screening of the film at Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science,
associate producer Bernard Williamsclaimed: We used to copy from paintings in terms of
light and characters placement. If you look at the movie, you will see that every scene looks
like a painting.
George Stubbs, Eclipse, 1769 - Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, 1975
The director accumulated a very large picture file of drawings and paintings taken from art
books. These pictures served as the reference for everything we needed to make - clothes,
furniture, hand props, architecture, vehicles, etc. As Williams notes: Stanley I told him
we need the agenda for tomorrow. And he: Get out all the paintings. Faced with the
enormous collection and after having given them thorough consideration, he usual
repeating: Maybe that I do it tomorrow and even the other one too. Get them ready
everyone. The filmmaker used to engage conversations about 1700s painting with the
artistic director Ken damand costume designer Milena Canonero. His desire was to open
a window onto the past for transporting the audience directly in the dimension of time. A
kind of stargatein which portraits by Gainsborough and Joshua Reynoldsserved as a model
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for study people physiognomy, their customs and practices and the way to relate to the
surrounding world; while Hogarths seriesMarriage -la-mode- a sequences of six pictures
painted between 1743 and 1745 depicting a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century
society have provided many details about aesthetic.
Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs William Hallett, 1785
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Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, 1975
Despite this, nobody's ever been able to find in Barry Lyndon an example of straight
imitation. However, this does not mean that are missing the references to the painting and,
more generally, to an iconography typical of Age of the Enlightenment. Judging by result,Barry Lyndon, than a movie embedded with citations, appears like a series of tableaux vivants
one byone, from formal perfection of initial frame to final sequence, where Lord Bullington,
back at home, stay close his blankly mother while shessigning the annual payment in favour
of ex-husband. The basic view concerning the making of the film exists within a statement
contained in aseries of three interviewsthat director gave to French critic Michel Ciment. In
relation to his 10thfeature film, Kubrick declared: Barry Lyndonalso offered the opportunity
to do one of the things that movies can do better than any other art form, and that is to
present historical subject matter. Description is not one of the things that novels do best butit is something that movies do effortlessly, at least with respect to the effort required of the
audience.
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John Constable, Malvern Hall,1809
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William Hogarth, Marriage -la-mode: 2. The Tte Tte, 1743
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Johann Heinrich Fssli, The Nightmare, 1781
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Kubrick revealed that has not used the storyboard when the picture was made, suggesting
that are very few the scenes and camera movements planned before. When you rehearse a
scene, it is usually best not to think about the camera at all. If you do, I have found that it
invariably interferes with the fullest exploration of the ideas of the scene. When, at last,
something happens which you know is worth filming, that is the time to decide how to shoot
it. Kubricks willingness is to dig deep human conditionthrough one of its most significant
manifestation: its representation. To paraphrase olden haikumaster Matsuo Basho, Kubrick
didnt try to follow the footsteps of ancients. He searched what they searching too. With
camera instead of paintbrush. Kubrick and his cinematographer John lcottfilmed both of
interiors and of exteriors without recourse to electric light candlelight at most in the
1700s painters zeitgeist, not only as a framework composition, but also in the choice of
colors, intentionally such as the fresco painting.
The perseverate obsessively and repeatedly in the construction of backgrounds and
situations that the director showing in Barry Lyndon is a process that owes a lot to the
Luchino Viscontis M.O., both as regards his approach purely philological and his
determination to use evocative potential of art not only for figurative purposes. Through the
wealth of formal elements and the aesthetic value of pictures, Stanley Kubrick demonstrates
that the painting can have the function of conscientious objector for the viewer, driving
his direction like HAL in 2001: A Space Odissey.
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Johann Joseph Zoffany, The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772-78
Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, 1975
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