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title: HOW PAINTING INFLUENCES CINEMA
description: There is a strong symbiosis between painting and cinema. Both can envelop the viewer, creating an atmosphere and arousing emotions through colour, composition and often without words. The best directo
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# [HOW PAINTING INFLUENCES CINEMA](https://storybox.karmanitalia.it/en/pittura-influenza-cinema)

 Written by [Ilaria Traditi](https://storybox.karmanitalia.it/en/author/ilaria-traditi) | May 11, 2016 8:13:08 AM

There is a strong symbiosis between painting and cinema. Both can envelop the viewer, creating an atmosphere and arousing emotions through colour, composition and often without words. The best directors often create a scene from a picture.

 

 

The director and photographer Vugar Efendi has taken this relationship between painting and cinema and transformed it into a short video named "Film Meets Art". "Art inspires cinema and cinema inspires art", he states in his presentation. "In this video, I simply wanted to focus on films inspired by famous paintings throughout history." It is a small but fascinating series of combinations, to which a sequel will hopefully follow.

 

 

The combinations included in this video include:  
 Napoleon Bonaparte - The Duelist  
 Birth of Venus - Adventures of Baron Munchchausen  
 Boy in Blue - Django Unchained  
 Last summer - Inherent Vice  
 House by the Railroad - Psycho  
 Christina’s World - Days of Heaven  
 Pacific - Heat  
 Ophelia - Melancholia

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