Apr 5, 20191 min read

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PAINTING & CINEMATOGRAPHY

Updated: Apr 9, 2019

SHOTS OF AWE : CINEMA PAINTING IN TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSfm5RL-24&t=1s

Photography can be considered to be 'PAINTING WITH LIGHT' cinematography is painting with moving light -

Some of the best cinematic compostions are made in movies by studying paintings

What the 2 mediums have in common is the 2 dimensional frame

THE DRAFTSMAN'S CONTRACT

DIRECTOR : PETER GREENAWAY

CINEMATOGRAPHY : CURTIS CLARK

AUGUSTE RENOIR 1841 - 1919 FRENCH PAINTER

HIS SON

JEAN RENOIR 1894 - 1979 FILM DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR: JULIAN SCHNABEL ALSO A PAINTER

CINEMATOGRAPHY : BENOIT DELHOMME ALSO A PAINTER

PAINTERS USE COLOUR AND SO DO CINEMATOGRAPHERS

TO BE A GOOD CINEMATOGRAPHER YOU MUST STUDY PHOTOGRPAHY

TO A BE A GOOD PHOTOGRAPHER STUDY PAINTING

FILM NOIR

LIGHTING TECHNIQUES FROM THE ITALIAN PAINTER

CARAVAGGIO 1571 - 161O

CARAVAGGIO APPEARING IN HIS OWN PAINTINGS

Chiaroscuro (English: /kiˌɑːrəˈskjʊəroʊ/; Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; Italian for light-dark), in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.[1] Similar effects in cinema and photography also are called chiaroscuro.