Looks like a Francis Bacon-painting
This movie looks like a painting by Francis Bacon. Still overwhelmed by it.
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I couldn't stop thinking of this while watching the movie. Brilliant.
I agree. IN fact Francis Bacon did a painting just for David. Mutual respect between artists.
Could you corroborate on your response. There is no evidence or article in which Francis Bacon ever met David Lynch much less gave a painting to him. I've read quite a handful of books on Francis Bacon (including the latest "5 decades") and there is no mention or connection to David Lynch. There are other artists who talk about David Lynch films having resonance and inspiration from Bacon paintings.
An example is JG Ballard on blue velvet:
"British author J. G. Ballard on David Lynch's Blue Velvet (originally published in Time Out in 1993):
Blue Velvet is, for me, the best film of the 1980s - surreal, voyeuristic, subversive and even a little corrupt in its manipulation of the audience. In short, the perfect dish for the jaded palates of the 1990s. But a thicket of puzzles remains. First, why do the sensible young couple, played by Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, scheme to break into the apartment of the brutalized nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and risk involving themselves with the psychopathic gangster - Dennis Hopper in his most terrifying screen performance?
[...]
The second puzzle is the role of the severed ear found by the young man after he visits his father in hospital, and which sets off the entire drama. Why an ear rather than a hand or a set of fingerprints? I take it that the ear is really his own, tuned to the inner voice that informs him of his imminent quest for his true mother and father. Like the ear, the white picket fence and the mechanical bird that heralds a return to morality, Blue Velvet is a sustained and brutal tease, The Wizard of Oz re-shot with a script by Kafka and decor by Francis Bacon. More, more...
J. G. Ballard, 'Blue Velvet'
in J. G. Ballard, A User's Guide to the Millenium: Essays and Reviews"
another is the aesthetic of the red room in Twin Peaks. Using "seated figure 1961" painting...http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/francis-bacon-seated-figure-1347766 801_b.jpg
I would like (if possible) a link to an article where your claim is true. Thank you.
Well David Lynch stated in many interviews is love for Francis Bacon. He said, and you could read this on "Lynch on Lynch", that Francis Bacon is his favorite painter in the world. He loves the colors, the mood, everything. Lynch recently also had a couple of Bacon inspired paintings, you know - using the shadow has a figure and not just part of a figure, standing on sofas with pink walls (INLAND EMPIRE also has pink walls and rooms that are very F.B).
In "The Grandmother", the black background with the white contours are clearly Bacon inspired.
Also it will be presented on the next David Lynch Documentary - Lynch Three, the painting that Francis Bacon gave David Lynch. It was mentioned on the kick starter page (a crowd funding page for projects).
I'm also a big fan of Francis Bacon, and thank you very much for the Ballard quote.
I hope you found this useful and not redundant. Cheers
Thank you. Francis Bacon towers over David Lynch as an artist in general. Bacon influenced Lynch but not the other way around...(bacon barely liked any other artist and the only one he would praise from his epoch was Marcel Duchamp).
I think you might have misread the kick starter information. They needed the funding so they can clear the licensing rights on certain images for the documentary including the Francis Bacon painting that inspired Lynch.
If Lynch owned a Bacon he wouldn't have to clear any licensing right because the painting itself belongs to him. I don't think Bacon ever knew who David lynch was in his lifetime and if there was a meeting of these two artists there would have been a document on the event that would probably be brought up time and time again in either respective artist's biography book.
I like Lynch as a filmmaker but as a painter he's not that good in my opinion...he rarely paints...there more sculptural mixed media pieces. Lynch has more in common as a painter with Anselm Kiefer (sharing creativity with the use of raw materials to create an image).
Cheers!.
I really must have misread the whole thing. I'm sorry for this disinformation. In my mind there was a sentence that very clearly said "Bacon offers Lynch a painting".
Actually Lynch is on a rampage concerning paintings. But you are right, he does use other materials, but I like that. But not all the time, I've seen some oil paintings done by him. Clearly Bacon is more interesting, in many ways, like Van Gogh. But there isn't better or worse, it's just a matter of perception, when the artist communicates more with us than the others. Everything is valid, you just aren't obligated to like it.