Hi Lizzy, great post! I thought you dealt brilliantly with the depictions not only of art, but artists in Alison! I grew up (kind of) in that world, as my dad is a painter and my mum is a sculptor (they met at art college!) and it felt really evocative of my childhood. I remember having some feeling that could have been close to cringe reading What I Loved, I think she does quite a lot of describing of paintings (in my memory, although I could have embellished that!).
Originally I thought you were going to talk about paintings in the backgrounds of film and TV, which I always find super distracting! I am always commenting about them: “those paintings are disgusting!” Etc...!
Ha Lizzy, I laughed at the bit where you swore to never watch Synecdoche, NY again. My brain's gone blank for fictional artwork - my first thought was a sculpture described in a short story I'd listened to on a podcast, but I googled it and it turned out to be a real sculpture (it was Félix González-Torres's Portrait of Ross and I can't remember the name of the short story that mentioned it now, either. Useless.)
Such an interesting post, thank you! I agree with Ella that you dealt really well with the art in Alison - but it’s an interesting problem that you gave yourself! It’s an oldie but I was so annoyed by how shit Leonardo DiCaprio’s drawing was in Titanic. And I liked Delia’s art in Beetlejuice but I think that was easier as I’m not sure we were meant to take it as seriously as she did!
Such a good post. I always enjoyed Brian’s artwork in Spaced.
Hi Lizzy, great post! I thought you dealt brilliantly with the depictions not only of art, but artists in Alison! I grew up (kind of) in that world, as my dad is a painter and my mum is a sculptor (they met at art college!) and it felt really evocative of my childhood. I remember having some feeling that could have been close to cringe reading What I Loved, I think she does quite a lot of describing of paintings (in my memory, although I could have embellished that!).
Originally I thought you were going to talk about paintings in the backgrounds of film and TV, which I always find super distracting! I am always commenting about them: “those paintings are disgusting!” Etc...!
Ha Lizzy, I laughed at the bit where you swore to never watch Synecdoche, NY again. My brain's gone blank for fictional artwork - my first thought was a sculpture described in a short story I'd listened to on a podcast, but I googled it and it turned out to be a real sculpture (it was Félix González-Torres's Portrait of Ross and I can't remember the name of the short story that mentioned it now, either. Useless.)
Such an interesting post, thank you! I agree with Ella that you dealt really well with the art in Alison - but it’s an interesting problem that you gave yourself! It’s an oldie but I was so annoyed by how shit Leonardo DiCaprio’s drawing was in Titanic. And I liked Delia’s art in Beetlejuice but I think that was easier as I’m not sure we were meant to take it as seriously as she did!
This is awesome!