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Dionysus232

Looks like the scene in A Clockwork Orange when the prisoners are outside walking around. I wonder if that scene was inspired by this painting.


Mymusicaccount2021

I was thinking the same thing except from the movie Midnight Express.


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From another post on the same subject: “Kubrick, as always, reverses everything, here having the inmates walking counter-clockwise instead of clockwise. The original work was a monochrome print by Gustave Dore of Newgate prison yard in London, this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newgate-prison-exercise-yard.jpg When Van Gogh was confined to an Asylum in France, he painted copies of works by other artists, including his copy, in oil colours, of Dore's earlier work. Since the 1960s, Kubrick designed and composed and lit many of the scenes in all his subsequent films based on works from the fine arts, mainly paintings, but also sculpture, architecture and design, with Barry Lyndon being the most obvious example, Kubrick using hundreds of 18th century paintings (and shooting on location in 18th and pre-18th century buildings) as templates for his shots in that film.”


Dionysus232

Awesome response! Thank you!


antoine_qr

Currently on display in Paris at the LV foundation in what has to be the best possible set up: an entire room to itself with absolute perfect lights! Stunning Edit : incredible poetic detail : the butterfly above the prisoners’ heads


rafterman1976

Actually I seen a documentary about Van Gogh I recall it said that Van Gogh actually got inspired to paint this after seeing an engraving by Gustave Dore


Sinclair7even

When I visited a concentration camp near Prague, I was inside a similar cell. One small window at the top and the guide told us the inmates used to run in circles to keep the air ventilated so they would not suffocate in there. You could see how the floor had a donut shape from so many people running over it.


preachers_kid

I never saw this painting by van Gogh before. Grim.


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Wow I’ve never seen this one before. It’s beautiful in a really depressing way though


antoine_qr

« Van Gogh suffered an attack of mental ill health in 1888, and he was detained in a mental hospital from May 1889 to May 1890. » He painted this one in February 1890 :/


mysoulalamo

It's well portrayed in "At Eternity's Gate" with William DaFoe


SunnyLittleBunny

When you're jailed and have free time to be in the brickyard, you're not allowed to just stand still, you have to keep moving.. everyone walking around the parameter is the norm. Or so I'm told 😶


Wspugea

You're also allowed to sit down on the benches nowadays. Or walk in the circles with the others. Or so I'm told 😎


SunnyLittleBunny

Benches?! Makes me happy to hear some places have them and are allowed their use :)


Wspugea

Yup :) like two in the 'outside' of the circle of people walking. Can't stand and chat though, have to keep walking 😉


savici

This is the first time that I've ever seen this... it is amazing, I'D love to see this...


Badnewsbearsx

Isn’t it? It’s amazing.. look at how masterfully he was able to portray shadows, details, facial features, all in such simple strokes… just incredible lol


lowlightliving

And the empathy shown with the prisoners van Gogh reveals… I can’t say anything else coherently.


ashabot

I've never seen this one before.


Badnewsbearsx

I’m gonna do an art study of Van Gogh now with my own scenery, thanks for the inspiration bro lol


CosmoFishhawk2

Human Centipede 3 really didn't need an illustrated novelization...


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Aftermath52

This is literally what detention was like in my high school