Critical Writing Index

Painting in Time: Robert Armstrong on Painting, Film and Video

by Robert Armstrong

Oval Office, Sept. 1998, v. 2, no. 2

Robert Armstrong discusses poetic images and the crystalization of an image in memory as something filmmakers and painters both seek; as something that makes them memorable artists. Armstrong draws similarities between painters' and filmakers' aesthetic styles and the influence they have had over each other. Armstrong also discusses video art as a medium and how it differs from cinema.

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Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky

In the Name of the Father – Jim Sheridan

Solaris – Andrei Tarkovsky

Interior – Degas

Therese Raquin – Zola

The House by the Railroad – Edward Hopper

Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder

Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock

Lost Highway – David Lynch

Last Tango in Paris – Francis Bacon

Pope Innocent X – Bernardo Bertolucci

Battleship – Velazquez

Friday the 13th – Sergei Eisenstein

Canoe-Lake – Sean Cunningham

Die Zeit – Peter Doig

About A Place – Luc Tuymans

Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face who I Saw Yesterday Down Walworth Road – Caroline McCarthy

Sacha and Mom – Gillian Wearing

The Raft of the Medusa – Gillian Wearing

Messenger – Gericault

Cremaster – Bill Viola

Basquiat – Matthew Barney

Kids – Julian Schnabel

Search and Destroy – Larry Clark

Mnemonic – David Salle

Robert Longo