Movie Review kinda... Actually more like art geeking
So I saw this movie recently, Where The Heart Is (1990).
As far as plot & stuff, it was...
Well, honestly, I have no clue. I guess the movie itself was ok, but I could care less about that. The thing that really got me was the *art* in it.
In this movie, one of the characters ("Chloe McBain" played by Suzy Amis) is a recent art school grad who's developed a style based on Trompe l'oeil - [french for trick the eye, roughly pronounced (trump loy).]
Trompe l'oeil basically is painting things so realiastically that it looks like they are there. Kinda like the guy who does the chalk drawings
Breif sidetrack for the link-salad:
For Great, incredible, & stunning examples see:
Taylor Hall From This site
Book buy a dude that does murals
Various Classic(?) examples
These are two of the great chalk artists that I found digging around on the net:
Julian Beever
This is they guy who's art i've seen around for years, usually circulating in emails, because it's just so damned cool. His style is a bit more cartoony then the next guy's, but it's still stunning.
Kurt Wenner Is another artist I found. His art appeals to me more then Julian Beever's because Kurt's style is much more classical.
back to the movie...
So anyway, in this film, the character, Chloe does these amazing backgrounds & then stands people against them & paints the people. It's just stunning. I couldn't find any screenshots from the movie to link to here unfortunatly. She's doing this calendar for commision, so throughout the movie there's different sets she's working on, and it was just so cool to watch as the models stood against the backgrounds & did their poses - and then they *moved* & I could do the thing where I switched my focus around from seeing them as part of the whole to seeing them as people standing there.
She had a few that were people there as people. Um. That is to say, she had a few peices in which the model involvement was to be a human person in the painting, not a... Um. Well, anything else. Like, there were a few where the people were part of other stuff - there was one really awesome piece that had 4 models. Background is a stormy ocean. The foreground had a model in the middle stranded in the ocean reaching upwards to the second model who was done up as the wind. The otehr two were to the right & left, with the right one being water, & the left done up as flame. I really wish I could find the screenshots.
Anyway. Cool.
It was cool. It was just so incredibly...
Yeah.
So I recommend Renting/netflixing the movie if you get a chance. I don't know about the plot... I mean, it was fun fluff - but you can fast foward through that if you want just to get to the good bits.
As far as plot & stuff, it was...
Well, honestly, I have no clue. I guess the movie itself was ok, but I could care less about that. The thing that really got me was the *art* in it.
In this movie, one of the characters ("Chloe McBain" played by Suzy Amis) is a recent art school grad who's developed a style based on Trompe l'oeil - [french for trick the eye, roughly pronounced (trump loy).]
Trompe l'oeil basically is painting things so realiastically that it looks like they are there. Kinda like the guy who does the chalk drawings
Breif sidetrack for the link-salad:
For Great, incredible, & stunning examples see:
Taylor Hall From This site
Book buy a dude that does murals
Various Classic(?) examples
These are two of the great chalk artists that I found digging around on the net:
Julian Beever
This is they guy who's art i've seen around for years, usually circulating in emails, because it's just so damned cool. His style is a bit more cartoony then the next guy's, but it's still stunning.
Kurt Wenner Is another artist I found. His art appeals to me more then Julian Beever's because Kurt's style is much more classical.
back to the movie...
So anyway, in this film, the character, Chloe does these amazing backgrounds & then stands people against them & paints the people. It's just stunning. I couldn't find any screenshots from the movie to link to here unfortunatly. She's doing this calendar for commision, so throughout the movie there's different sets she's working on, and it was just so cool to watch as the models stood against the backgrounds & did their poses - and then they *moved* & I could do the thing where I switched my focus around from seeing them as part of the whole to seeing them as people standing there.
She had a few that were people there as people. Um. That is to say, she had a few peices in which the model involvement was to be a human person in the painting, not a... Um. Well, anything else. Like, there were a few where the people were part of other stuff - there was one really awesome piece that had 4 models. Background is a stormy ocean. The foreground had a model in the middle stranded in the ocean reaching upwards to the second model who was done up as the wind. The otehr two were to the right & left, with the right one being water, & the left done up as flame. I really wish I could find the screenshots.
Anyway. Cool.
It was cool. It was just so incredibly...
Yeah.
So I recommend Renting/netflixing the movie if you get a chance. I don't know about the plot... I mean, it was fun fluff - but you can fast foward through that if you want just to get to the good bits.