When a painting becomes as famous as Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, a kind of populist appropriation can take place which dissuades those with a serious interest in art from taking it seriously. One participant in Ali Ray’s documentary suggests that students have posters of it on their walls because of its beauty, or because they think it’s romantic. This may be doing some of them a disservice. It’s isn’t all that difficult to observe that there’s something off about the embrace that it depicts. The man’s hands are on the woman’s throat; she appears to be trying to prise them off. This is the ambiguity which really cements the picture’s power and has intrigued scholars and members of the public alike ever since its first exhibition in 1908.
Centring on an exhibition which places Klimt’s works alongside those of his contemporaries,...
Centring on an exhibition which places Klimt’s works alongside those of his contemporaries,...
- 10/28/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sony’s ’65’ and Universal’s ’Champions’ are also new this weekend.
This weekend’s widest opener at the UK-Ireland box office is Scream VI, the latest offering from the iconic horror franchise, hitting 624 locations for Paramount.
It is slightly up on locations to Scream – the fifth film in the slasher series – which opened to an impressive £2.5m from 622 sites in January 2022, at an average of £3,955, making it the highest-performing horror title since the pandemic at the UK-Ireland box office.
Recent horrors to do well in the territory includes Universal’s M3GAN, the second best-performer for the genre since the pandemic,...
This weekend’s widest opener at the UK-Ireland box office is Scream VI, the latest offering from the iconic horror franchise, hitting 624 locations for Paramount.
It is slightly up on locations to Scream – the fifth film in the slasher series – which opened to an impressive £2.5m from 622 sites in January 2022, at an average of £3,955, making it the highest-performing horror title since the pandemic at the UK-Ireland box office.
Recent horrors to do well in the territory includes Universal’s M3GAN, the second best-performer for the genre since the pandemic,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
“Women should be someone and not something,” said Mary Cassatt, the Pennsylvania-born artist who shook up the establishment in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries with her uncompromising reinterpretation of feminine subjects long framed by the male gaze. In this latest contribution to the Exhibition On Screen series, director Ali Ray explores her paintings, printmaking and pastels whilst also looking at her interactions with contemporaries and the tremendous influence she acquired through promoting others’ work.
“There’s something difficult and ugly about her work...she frustrates a lot of people” says Vancouver art historian Nicole Georgopulos in a not uncomplimentary way. Difficult is, after all, a term increasingly worn as a badge of pride by women who have carved out careers in male-dominated fields. It reflects a willingness to go against the grain, to set aside mere perfectionism and seek instead to interrogate the standards against which art is judged.
“There’s something difficult and ugly about her work...she frustrates a lot of people” says Vancouver art historian Nicole Georgopulos in a not uncomplimentary way. Difficult is, after all, a term increasingly worn as a badge of pride by women who have carved out careers in male-dominated fields. It reflects a willingness to go against the grain, to set aside mere perfectionism and seek instead to interrogate the standards against which art is judged.
- 3/7/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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