'Film Meets Art': 27 Amazing Movie Shots Inspired By Great Works Of Art!

A Vimeo user 'Vugar Efendi' published a side-by-side supercut entitled “Film Meets Art.” The goal is to show how great paintings inspired some of the best shots in cinema. The result was a rather beautiful side-by-side study of just how painterly filmmaking can be.

1. Jacques-Louis David, La Mort de Marat (1793)

Movie: About Schmidt

2. Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World (1948)

Movie: Days of Heaven

3. Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad (1925)

Movie: Psycho

4. Francisco Goya, Duelo a Garrotazos (1823)

Movie: Jamón Jamón

5. William Ford, At the Hanging Rock (1875)

Movie: Picnic at Hanging Rock

6. Grant Wood, Young Corn (1931)

Movie: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

7. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801)

Movie: Marie Antionette

8. Alex Coville, Pacific

Movie: Heat

9. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Petite Baigneuse – Intérieur de Harem (1828)

Movie:  Passion

10. Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer (1836)

Movie: There Will Be Blood

11. John Constable, Malvern Hall, Warwickshire (1809)

Movie: Barry Lyndon

12. John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1852)

Movie: Melancholia

13. John Kacere, Jutta (1973)

Movie: Lost in Translation

14. The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci (1498)

15. Marc Chagall, Over the Town (1918)

Movie: Sexy Beast

16. Giovanni Bellini, Pietà Donà dalle Rose (1505)

Movie: Children of Men

17. Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear (1943)

Movie: Empire of the Sun

18. Odd Nerdrum, Dawn (1989)

Movie: The Fall

19. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow (1565)

Movie: The Mirror

20. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (1563)

Movie: Metropolis

21. Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (1486)

Movie: The Adventure of Baron Munchausen

22. Alex Colville, To Prince Edward Island (1965)

Movie: Moonrise Kingdom

23. Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting (1665-69)

Movie:  A Zed and Twov Noughts

24. René Magritte, La Robe du Soir (1954)

Movie: Moonlight

25. René Magritte, Architettura au Clair de Lune (1956)

Movie: The Truman Show

26. Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation of Christ (1475-90)

Movie: The Return

27. Caspar David Friedrich, Woman before the Rising Sun (1818-20)

Movie: Gone with the Wind