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Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
When you want to feature a famous painting in a movie, you can't simply slap a poster of a Monet or a Picasso in a frame and yell, “Action!”—nor can you cart the real thing from its space on a museum wall to the set
Turns out, when you want to feature a famous painting in a movie, you can't simply slap a poster of a Monet or a Picasso in a frame and yell, “Action!”—nor can you cart the real thing from its space on a museum wall to the set (there’s too much margin for loss or destruction). The finished film only shows the infamous Girl with a Pearl Earring upon completion (that shot, in fact, is of the real painting—used with permission from the Mauritshuis Museum), but the team had created various versions, “From raw canvas, to drawing, to filled-in blocks of color, to the first stages of working it out,” said van Hulzen. In the case of director and star Ed Harris’s 2000 production, two things were essential: cooperation from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation estate, and staffing a talented team of scenics to create the film’s drip paintings.
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