22+ masterpieces of great painters, encrypted in cult films

If connoisseurs of painting and film fans were at the same table, they would be surprised to find a common topic of conversation - the revived masterpieces of great painters in cult films of our time. It remains to pay tribute to the Greek philosopher Hippocrates, who came to the famous conclusion that life is short and art is eternal.

In this collection we will reveal the secret of the inspiration of famous directors, comparing the canvases of great artists with the frames of successful films, many of which you have definitely seen or come to see. You definitely didn't expect this!

The film: "Dunkirk", Christopher Nolan (2017) and the picture: "The Wanderer over the Sea of Fog", Kaspar David Friedrich (1818)

The film: "Oil", Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) and the picture: "A young man sitting on the seashore", Jean Hippolyte Flandrin (1836)

Film: "The Fifth Element", Luc Besson - picture: "Broken Column", Frida Kahlo

Movie: "Sexy Creature", Jonathan Glazer (2000)

Picture: "Over the City", Marc Chagall (1918)

Movie: "Forest Gump", Robert Zemeckis (1994)

Picture: "The World of Christina", Andrew Wyeth (1948)

Film: "A Clockwork Orange", Stanley Kubrick (1871) and the painting "Prisoners", Vincent Van Gogh (1890)

The films "Fight Club", David Fincher (1999), "The Godfather 2", Francis Ford Coppola (1974) and the picture: "The Death of Marat", Jacques-Louis David (1793)

Film: "The Beginning", Christopher Nolan (2010)

Picture: "Ascent and Descent", Mauritz Escher (1960)

Film: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino (2012) and the painting: The Boy in Blue, Thomas Gainsborough (1770)

Film: "Psychosis", Alfred Hitchcock (1960) and the picture: "The House by the Yellow Road", Edward Hopper (1925)

Film: "Melancholy", Lars von Trier (2012) and picture: "oPhelia", John Everett Millet (1852)

Film: "Stay in My Shoes", Jonathan Glazer (2013)

Painting: "The Wanderer over the sea of fog", Kaspar David Friedrich (1818)

Movie: "Empire of the Sun", Steven Spielberg (1987)

Painting: "Freedom from Fear", Norman Rockwell (1943)

Film: "Viridiana", Luis Bunuel (1961) and the picture: "The Last Supper", Leonardo da Vinci (1498)

Movie: Avatar, James Cameron (2009)

Picture: "Flying Islands", Roger Dean (1993)

Film: "Difficulties of Translation", Sofia Coppola (2003)

Picture: "Jutta", John Kachere (1973)

Film: "Labyrinth", Jim Henson (1986) and picture: "Relativity", Mauritz Cornelis Escher (1953)

Film: "The American in Paris", Vincent Minnelli (1951) and the painting: "Chocolate Dance", Henri Toulouse-lAutrec (1896)

Film: "Shirley: Images of Reality", Gustav Deutsch (2013)

Painting: "Morning Sun", Edward Hopper (1952)

The film: "Sheep's Cheese", Pier Paolo Pasolini (1963) and the picture: "The Removal from the Cross", Giovanni Battista Rosso Fiorentino (1521)

The film: "The Thomas Crown Scam", John McTiernan (1999) and the picture: "Son of Man", Rene Magritte (1964)

The film "The Mirror", Andrey Tarkovsky (1975)

Painting: "Hunters in the Snow", Pieter Brueghel (1565)

Film: "Cabaret", Bob Foss (1972) and the picture: "Portrait of the journalist Sylvia von Harden", Otto Dix (1926)

Film: "The Skin I Live in", Pedro Almodavar (2011) and the picture: Venus with Cupid and the Organist, Titian (1549)

The film: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", Terry Gilliam (1988) and the picture: "The Birth of Venus", Sandro Botticelli (1484)