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Anybody else notice how god-awful Sabina's artwork was?


She may have been one hell of a lay and a free bird and all that, but as an artist she was ridiculously bad.

Initially she apparently painted HR Gieger-esque genitalia which would have made Gollum vomit, then she did that bit with broken mirrors (the idea for which seemed to be snaffled straight from the "Women expressing themselves through art" course at the local community college), and finally she does airbrush. She airbrushes two blue strokes on the canvas, and then the old fart goes like: "How marvelous, isn't it?".

On the other hand she could finance fantastic flats in Prague and Geneva through her work, buy a car, move stateside ...

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That's a problem a lot of fictional filmic artists have. Directors seldom know art. Art directors.... who knows what they actually know or what prompts their choices?

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Who gives a damn how bad a painter she was? I'm sure Kaufman to this day wishes that he had reshot those scenes.

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The artwork is by Irena Dedicova who was Kundera's inspiration for Sabina... your comment about Kaufman's lack of art knowledge is therefor nul and obviously just subjective to begin with.

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