Tacky (or great) paintings/portraits created specifically for movies

Carlotta's on Find-a-Grave:

I can't decide if the portrait of Scarlett in GWTW, is good or not.

The picture of Dorian Gray from the 1944 movie. It always reminded of a heavy metal album cover.

Laura. Great movie and great portrait.

Carlotta always makes me laugh. One suspects Hitchcock is trolling us! Or maybe for some reason he's trolling the Legion of Honor.

Mr. and Mrs. Tony Montana

I’m with you R5.

The Portrait of Jennie, which at the end of the 1948 b&w movie is finally shown in Technicolor, and hanging in no less than the Met!

Well this is certainly tacky.

Oh! You can buy the SCARFACE prop!

[quote]Lot #: 379 Ω

[quote]Hand-Painted Mansion Portrait of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeifer) SCARFACE (1983)

[quote]A hand-painted portrait of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer) from Brian De Palma's crime drama Scarface. Tony Montana's portrait hung on the first floor of his mansion. The painting is seen in numerous scenes, however the bullet holes are not seen in the final cut of the film.

[quote]The large painting is rendered in acrylic paint on canvas, and shows Elvira wearing a red gown as she sits in a lavish chair, with Tony wearing a tuxedo as he stands proudly behind her. The portrait shows ten holes from being shot up during the violent gunfight at the end of the film, and tape residue on the back of the canvas from where squibs were previously attached.

[quote]Paired with the mansion portrait is a reference photograph of Tony and Elvira that assisted the portrait artist in painting the piece. The lot also includes three behind-the-scenes stills of the production crew on set with the portrait. Following the production, the painting was rolled and gifted to a crew member. The lot shows minor wear due to production use and age, and the portrait is rolled. However, the piece remains in very fine condition. Dimensions (portrait): 241 cm x 160 cm (95' x 63'); (photograph): 25 cm x 20 cm x 1 cm (10' x 8' x 1/4')

[quote]Please note this lot is sold without copyright, reproduction rights, licensing agreements or any other type of legal releases.

Bohemian Big Sur artist with her masterpiece, "Child with Extra-Large Strawberry Ice Cream Cone".

Joan Crawford for the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, where every story had its own original artwork.

Wasn't my mom a Betty?!?

I’m Alive

My favorite all time movie portrait, Harvey and Elwood P. Dowd.

Working Girl Warhols

Leo’s inept drawing of Winslet drew them improbably closer together.

Francesco Clemente's work in Great Expectations.

Rebecca de Winter, from the movie Rebecca starring Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier.

Goop has inspired many onscreen artists

Salvador Dali, for Hitchcock’s Spellbound.

An Unmarried Woman had very 70s art all over the place.

Painting good. Movie bad.

Lucy didn’t know that it was Anita Morris who posed for that painting.

Doug and Carrie portrait, a passive aggressive gift given to them by their black couple best friends after the latter had received an unintentionally racist gift from the Heffernans.

some kind of wonderful

Bohemian Big Sur artist with her masterpiece, "Child with Extra-Large Strawberry Ice Cream Cone".

I think all the paintings in that movie were actually painted by Tony Duquette's wife.

Picture Mommy Dead had to be painted twice after Zsa Zsa stepped in for an exhausted Hedy Lamarr, who replaced the neurasthenic original choice, Gene Tierney.

This, of course.

Plus this one

You bitches are slipping

Not slipping, not a movie...

[quote] Picture Mommy Dead had to be painted twice after Zsa Zsa stepped in for an exhausted Hedy Lamarr

It's Hedley, damn it!

That's not Rebecca DeWinter, that's a portrait at Manderley and Rebecca dressed like the woman in the portrait for a costume party. Later, the evil Mrs Danvers suggested The Nameless Wife should throw a costume party and dress like the portrait because she knew it would freak Max out.

Vigo the Carpathian - Ghostbusters II

Paulette Goddard in one of my favorite movies, Ghost Breakers, dressed as one of her ancestors in the movie.

r23, it was all by abstract expressionist Paul Jenkins. He taught Alan Bates to paint like him. I thought about posting him, but I didn't want to place his work among all this truly tacky "art."

Bette's Fanny

Here's another ghostly portrait from The Uninvited, another great old movie for Halloween. That is Cornelia Otis Skinner standing in front of a portrait of her deceased friend who is haunting Gail Russell and Ray Milland.

I have a VERY LARGE, beautiful oil portrait that was commissioned for the film THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE (1950), starring Louis Calhern as SCOTUS Oliver Wendell Holmes. It's not a portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes (which some museum or law school would gladly take). It's a portrait of actor Louis Calhern *as* Oliver Wendell Holmes....which no one wants...because who the hell is Louis Calhern?? (asked everyone under 70)

He was a long time B-actor at MGM. THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE was sort of a "vanity project", granted to him by MGM for his many years of service. He'd played the role in the stage production of MAGNIFICENT YANKEE.

^^ (but the portrait/painting was done from that sitting/photo)

The fallen Madonna with the big boobies.

Here we go!

Marguerite Wyke in Sleuth. This was probably the only time in film history when a film portrait received its own movie credit.

Her likeness was based on Mrs. Paul Newman.

I came here to post that R36! Vigo used to scare me - intense eyes!

Christiane Kubrick’s lush paintings in “Eyes Wide Shut”. They impressed me so much, now I own two.

If I Could Keep Angst In A Bottle

I don't know if this qualifies, but the "fashion" shown at the private viewing in "The Devil Wears Prada" always reminds me of the fashion "shows" little girls do at home with their mothers' scarves and old frocks.

And who could forget the great Laura! A painting so mesmerizing it caused a hard-boiled detective to fall in love with its subject!

R41 if you want to give or loan that painting to a museum, have you contacted ones in St. Louis? Though born in Brooklyn, NY, he grew up in and considered STL his hometown. I’m sure a museum there could find room to honor a hometown actor’s Oscar nominated performance.

The portrait of Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, even though it’s referred to in the script a couple if times as “a very poor painting.”

The family portrait of the society family in Sabrina, with their older versions posed in front, including Humphrey Bogart and William Holden.

The portrait Ronald Colman paints of harridan Ida Lupino in The Light that Failed, before he totally goes blind, and she destroys it.

The portrait of his identical-looking Regency ancestor that obsesses Leslie Howard, in Berkeley Square. (And the one of Tyrone Power in the remake, I’ll Never Forget You.)

Vivien Leigh’s portrait as Lady Hamilton, after Romney.

The portrait of Sarah Miles as Lady Caroline Lamb,

Kirk Douglas’s self-portraits in Lust for Life, as well as other Van Goghesque renditions of Everett Sloane and Niall McGinniss, recreating other portraits.

Spencer Tracy’s portrait as the paterfamilias in Broken Lance.

Boy with Apple from The Grand Budapest Hotel

In the original "In-Laws" movie, there's a scene with Peter Falk and a General Garcia (Richard Libertini) of Tijata, small island south of Honduras. Garcia displays a flag he proposed, but the flag got rejected. Garcia says:

[quote] [commenting on his choice for a new national flag, featuring a portrait of himself alongside a topless local prostitute] If it wasn't for the church, this flag would be flying at the U.N right now. But no... they stand in the way, THEY STAND IN THE WAY!

Sorry, I can't find an image of the flag.

Not from a movie, but who can forget the Artanis/Good work?

Sweets to the Sweet, via Candyman

The Baby Jane doll from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"

And where is she today, r57?

Trisha from Napoleon Dynamite

The painting of Laura in "Laura" was actually a large b+w photo print. They gave the photo a few painterly brushstrokes to make it look more like an oil painting. Apparently the painting they commissioned just wasn't up to scratch hence the photo.

She blossomed stunningly, R58.

The painting of Fancy Bates in “The Toy”. The dress slid away, exposing the nude underneath.

Klassy.

Here's the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray before its transformation into r3's painting.

The portrait at r19 is of Lady Caroline de Winter, one of Maxim’s ancestors. As someone upthread said, it is definitely not a portrait of Rebecca, Max’s first wife, as r19 erroneously claims.

Bette had quite the collection!

There are really fascinating portraits Martin Scorsese had made up for “The Age of Innocence” of three important society figures in the film: Mrs. Manson Mingott, Regina Beaufort, and Louisa van der Luyden. Mrs. van der Luyden (Alexis Smith) is first seen sitting under her portrait grouped with a series of other portraits of her Knickerbocker ancestors to suggest the awe-inspiring importance of her genealogy for people in NY society.

Kind of like this, r66?

OP, the portrait of Carlotta Valdez is intentionally crude. Indeed, it’s actually more sophisticated than most Mid 19th century California portraits were.

I also did this.

[quote] One dog goes one way and the other dog goes the other way. And this guy’s saying, "Whaddya want from me?"

The dog painting by Tommy's mother (Joe Pesci / Catherine Scorcese), Goodfellas.

R62 I am glad you posted that, I was thinking of it while reading this thread but couldn't remember which movie it was from!

Sign from movie Porky's Revenge

‘House of Usher’ had a scene with very creepy original paintings portaying the venal Usher family.

The pig statue on top of Satriale's pork store, Sopranos.

Old Man with Dog, Goodfellas.

“The sad Carlotta” I love that line in the movie

I wore it better!

From "Flora," the Carol Burnett parody

Two Lesbians Masturbating, The Grand Budapest Hotel

I'm jealous R47.

Kim Novak got a portrait for "The Legend of Lylah Clare." It is not a good portrait and it is not a good movie, either.

R79 the lesbians are having sex not masterbating.

Can't forget zuul from Ghostbusters

Of more recent vintage.

Robert Hays' painting of 'Nam from "Airplane",

Citizen Kane

Of course it's not a movie (although now that I think of it, it was,,,,from the spin-off movie), but who can forget the portrait of Barnabas Collins from "Dark Shadows"?

The painting, ostensibly of Ava Gardner, but based on the original by Goya, entitled "The Naked Maja," in the film of the same name.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Janice Rule as Willie doing some phallic painting in an empty swimming pool.

--- "Three Women"

You bitches are slippin !

Oooh, good one, r90!

The painting of Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) from the classic "Pride and Prejudice." It sold for £12,000 in 2009.

Personally, I thought the painting was neither tacky nor great but kind of "meh." Colin Firth, on the other hand, was definitely more on the "great" side of things.

And one of Bette painting...

from Brian de Palma's Obsession

in Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Bruno's mother's painting in Strangers on a Train

Not a painting but a statue of the goddess Ishtar from the low budget horror classic BLOOD FEAST.

Tack-E!

The child's drawing in Argento's Deep Red

The fetish paintings of Carol Wayne in Heartbreakers (1984). I could only find the album cover of the Tangerine Dream soundtrack.

The painting from Laura was also reused in two other movies: On the Riviera (1951) and Woman's World

The painting from The Witches.

I sat beneath that portrait in Jonathan Frid's Manhattan apartment one night in the early 1990s. He also had the cane and ring in lucite cases on display.

Jerry's paintings in "An American in Paris" are all mundane and generic, and I have no idea if they were meant to be. Were the audience supposed to think the Gene Kelly character was a real talent, or were they supposed to think it was nice that he was enjoying his time in Paris even though he had no talent?

Quite frankly, almost all the onscreen paintings from the studio era are bad, because I assume that they were created when a matte painter or set painter was told that his next assignment was to paint a portrait from some actor. And that they would work from a photograph and have the damn thing ready in _ days.

Portrait of Steve Zissou in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Christopher Walken and Andrew Bryanarski’s portrait in Batman Returns.

Raul Julia painted as his insane character M. Bison in the awful Street Fighter.

He died before the movie was released.

I really like this, even though it was for a Rocky movie, but I tend to like that painting style in general.

R82, that's the title of the painting when I googled it.

Perhaps because I like paintings so much these all made me physically nauseous.

Not a paintings, but art used in 'Rawhide'. There's both sketches bronze statues used in the opening credits.

Well, R110, if you vomit on a canvas, you’ll have a LeRoy Neiman.

This thread has included just about every painting from a movie that I can think of.

Except for this one, from The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. If you ever saw this movie as a child, you never forgot the image of Mrs. Simmons with the garden shears in her neck, blood streaming down.

While it was a TV series, not a movie, "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" was the punchline for the entire run of the BBC series 'Allo 'Allo

The painting in R91 is from the 1973 movie "Arnold" with DL legend Stella Stevens,since no one remarked on it or even asked!

R107 I admit I saw that movie in the theater. I was a kid obsessed with SF on the Super Nintendo and begged my dad to take me too watch it.

Did you know that Street Fighter: The movie video game for PlayStation is the only video game based on a movie that is based on a video game?

In Polyester, Dexter's foot stomping fetish was redirected into art.

Clive Barker's paintings for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Another portrait of Joan Crawford, from The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.

Brady's.....

R79, that’s not a painting made for the movie. It’s Two Women by Egon Schiele. He seems to have had a bit of thing for body hair, including his own. He was a skinny, scary-looking fellow, or anyway he saw himself as such.

R121 Actually, it was made for the film. It was painted by Rich Pellegrino.

Hannibal Lecter’s drawings of Clarice Starling.

Young "Helen Lawson" in "Valley of the Dolls."

television movie 'Man in an Orange Shirt'