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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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* Quite a bit of ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' by Ayn Rand seems to be about this. |
* Quite a bit of ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' by Ayn Rand seems to be about this. |
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* ''[[Discworld]]'' artist Paul Kidby loves these. So far he's done Wright's ''Experiment With Air-Pump'' (''[[The Science of Discworld]]'' cover); Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'' (er, ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' cover); ''[[Iwo Jima Pose|Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima]]'' (''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'' cover); ''[[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Lisa]]'' (Leonard of Quirm's "The Mona Ogg", ''Art of Discworld''' cover); ''[[Thinker Pose|The Thinker]]'' ([[Dumb Muscle|Detritus]] as "Da Finker" in ''The Art of Discworld''); Holman Hunt's ''The Hireling Shepherd'' (Leonard and Gytha again in ''The Art of Discworld''); ''[[American Gothic Couple|American Gothic]]'' ([[Reaper Man|Death and Miss Flitworth]] in ''The Art of Discworld''); Parrish's ''The Pied Piper'' ([[The Amazing Maurice and |
* ''[[Discworld]]'' artist Paul Kidby loves these. So far he's done Wright's ''Experiment With Air-Pump'' (''[[The Science of Discworld]]'' cover); Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'' (er, ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' cover); ''[[Iwo Jima Pose|Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima]]'' (''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'' cover); ''[[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Lisa]]'' (Leonard of Quirm's "The Mona Ogg", ''Art of Discworld''' cover); ''[[Thinker Pose|The Thinker]]'' ([[Dumb Muscle|Detritus]] as "Da Finker" in ''The Art of Discworld''); Holman Hunt's ''The Hireling Shepherd'' (Leonard and Gytha again in ''The Art of Discworld''); ''[[American Gothic Couple|American Gothic]]'' ([[Reaper Man|Death and Miss Flitworth]] in ''The Art of Discworld''); Parrish's ''The Pied Piper'' ([[The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents|Maurice and Keith]] for ''The Discworld Calendar 2003''); and others. |
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** ''[[The Last Hero]]'' alone includes the final scene of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' (Cohen in the frontispiece); the Bayeaux Tapestry (the Silver Horde in the ''other'' frontispiece); Da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man'' (Leonard's design for a NASA-style training centrifuge); Munch's ''[[The Scream]]'' (Rincewind's reaction to the elephants); Wright's ''Philosopher at the Orrery'' (the wizards plotting the route of the ''Kite''); [[Sistine Steal|the Sistine Chapel]] (Cohen giving the finger to the gods) and probably more. |
** ''[[The Last Hero]]'' alone includes the final scene of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' (Cohen in the frontispiece); the Bayeaux Tapestry (the Silver Horde in the ''other'' frontispiece); Da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man'' (Leonard's design for a NASA-style training centrifuge); Munch's ''[[The Scream]]'' (Rincewind's reaction to the elephants); Wright's ''Philosopher at the Orrery'' (the wizards plotting the route of the ''Kite''); [[Sistine Steal|the Sistine Chapel]] (Cohen giving the finger to the gods) and probably more. |
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** In ''[[The Wee Free Men|The Illustrated Wee Free Men]]'' Stephen Player does a couple of pictures based on Richard Dadd's ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke''. Since the scene in the book is specifically stated in the Author's Note to be based on that painting. |
** In ''[[The Wee Free Men|The Illustrated Wee Free Men]]'' Stephen Player does a couple of pictures based on Richard Dadd's ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke''. Since the scene in the book is specifically stated in the Author's Note to be based on that painting. |
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*** Which brings up a musical example. [[Queen]] have a song called ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke'', which strongly resembles the painting. |
*** Which brings up a musical example. [[Queen]] have a song called ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke'', which strongly resembles the painting. |
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== Live |
== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
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* In Cycle 5 of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'', when there were five contestants left, the challenge was to for each 'recreate' a classic work of art, being "Mona Lisa," "Whistler's Mother," "The Vitruvian Man," "The Birth of Venus," and "[[Girl with a Pearl Earring]]." |
* In Cycle 5 of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'', when there were five contestants left, the challenge was to for each 'recreate' a classic work of art, being "Mona Lisa," "Whistler's Mother," "The Vitruvian Man," "The Birth of Venus," and "[[Girl with a Pearl Earring]]." |
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* In the ad campaign for [[Nip Tuck]], women getting plastic surgery are positioned to resemble classical works, including Venus de Milo. |
* In the ad campaign for [[Nip Tuck]], women getting plastic surgery are positioned to resemble classical works, including Venus de Milo. |
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