might seem risky to take this film as an example for establishing its connections with the visual arts. Yet in I Am Legend there are also interesting references to the Land Art, art in the area (for This topic compare archive July 2008 - A Quiet Place in the Country - part 2 ²).
After a deadly virus that has decimated the entire population of the planet, the film's protagonist spends his time walking the streets of New York abandoned and degraded. Some buildings in the background are completely wrapped in plastic sheets, testimony likely to have tried to quarantine the entire building during the epidemic. This view by the director Francis Lawrence finds its archetype in the work of Christo Javašev . A Bulgarian artist who works through the actual packaging of things and square kilometers of land or buildings.
After a deadly virus that has decimated the entire population of the planet, the film's protagonist spends his time walking the streets of New York abandoned and degraded. Some buildings in the background are completely wrapped in plastic sheets, testimony likely to have tried to quarantine the entire building during the epidemic. This view by the director Francis Lawrence finds its archetype in the work of Christo Javašev . A Bulgarian artist who works through the actual packaging of things and square kilometers of land or buildings.
I Am Legend 
Javašev Christo, projects and studies to work on some buildings in New York - 1984 / 2003 
Javašev Christo, The monument to Vittorio Emanuele bundled - Milan 1970 
Javašev Christo, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971-95 Robert Neville, at his home, surrounded himself with the masterpieces of modern and contemporary art. We can see the background of some of the walls, the paintings of Van Gogh, from "Road with Cypresses" the "Starry Night." -ups in the room where he is leaning against the wall a picture of Keith Haring, while jogging a painting by Mark Rothko, "N.3/N.13. In the kitchen "Still life of peaches and pears" of Paul Cezanne.
I Am Legend The desire to take art as a reference spectacularly to solve some pictures or a desire to simply show pictures of artists who really existed, shows how the film needs the arts to express visually his image in the world. Even in a film cassette can be found curious homage to the art world. A test of what is written, Godman screenwriter Akiva I Am Legend claimed: "Digging deep you could realize a lot of references to art."
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