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The Realm of the Senses (Ai no Corrida - L'Empire des Sens - 1976)

Nagisa Oshima made this film from a true story that happened in Japan in 1936. Staged the story of two lovers caught up in a loving relationship and sex more and more extreme.

scenes, openly hard, owe their composition to the entire Japanese erotic painting of 700, especially the "spring pictures".

Numerous embraces consumed by the protagonist, is modeled on a long series of paintings traditional Nipponese. The shots refer to the elegant and refined composition of settee Tsukioka (1710-1787) and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806).

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Tsukioka Settee "erotic scenes"

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Kitagawa Utamaro, couple



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paints spring called Shunga

Shigenobu Yanagawa / Shuncho Katsukawa

Torii Kiyonaga / Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi

Eisen Keisai / Okumura Masanobu

Kitagawa Utamaro / Katsushika Hokusai

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A Quiet Place in the Country (1968) - 2nd Part

were saying that the quotes in this film with contemporary art are numerous, even with the Land Art, art in the area. An artistic movement that developed in the mid 60s. Is generally characterized by striking installations on the landscape, through the use of natural materials-poor. In this picture he paints the trees of his villa.

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There are references with abstract art. In these images, Franco Nero enters into one of his works, the reference to the concepts of space Lucio Fontana is evident.

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Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept, New York 10 (1962)

Leonardo Ferri, the film's protagonist, makes extensive use of spray paint to leave their footprints on the canvas. The technique used by several artists, very reminiscent of the happenings of Yves Kleyn, leaving footprints on the canvas of the nude bodies of some models.

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Yves Klein, People begin to fly (1961)

We find quotes through the use of other citations. Petri depicts the decadence of a Venetian duchess, using a famous painting by David ...

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Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Madame Recamier (1800)

Magritte design a sculpture ... bronze, with surreal overtones, clearly inspired by the painting of David. Petri builds a scene on the same composition of Magritte.

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René Magritte, Madame Recamier (1967)

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This film could be considered a tribute to Elio Petri towards the painting.

Even from the opening credits we see the numerous references to the visual arts, they are interspersed with shots of famous works of art. Their choice of graphics, very innovative for the period, was inspired by many artistic movements.

The use of arrows, letters, numbers and punctuation typographical enlarged, strictly painted in black, superimposed on bright areas of color with quick gestural interventions, there refers to a group of artists, one in particular: the greek Jannis exponent of conceptual art.

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Jannis Untitled (1959)

Jannis in his study

After the opening credits, the film opens on an image that clearly reveals his inspiration with Body art: an artistic expression that is characterized by the use of the body, led by cruel and sadomasochistic rituals often at the limits of human endurance. Franco Nero sat on a chair-bound, in an apparent state of trans, reminiscent of the happenings of many artists inspired by this art form, the French Gina Pane, the German Hermann Nitsch, the American Chris Burden, Valie Export from Austria, to name a few.

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The titles say verbatim that the author of the paintings included in the film is Jim Dine.
An artist is usually considered as representative of American Pop art.

"The United Artists in Italy sent this young American who was taught to paint. The name was Jim Dine. Nobody knew him. Elio knew it had great value because it was a freak Elio painting and so I started working with him, following his movements. What then I did with the character in the movie. " Franco Nero

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Jim Dine, Study for a color chart (1963)

Jim Dine, Chil'd Blue Wall (1963)

Jim Dine, Five feet of colorful ( 1962)

Franco Nero pouring paint on the canvas, this approach is a typical American action painting, reminds us of two of the leading founders of this artistic movement, Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning.

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Pollock in his studio

School Jim Dine through the interpretation of Franco Nero

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Willem De Kooning, Montauk Highway (1958)