SECOND POLL: FRED KELEMEN'S FAVORITE PAINTERS (1)

--So my first poll in blogspot.com has ended. The question is “IF YOU HAVE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A FILM, IN WHOSE FILM WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE?”

The result from 14 votes is:

1.ROBERT BRESSON + PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Each got 4 votes, or 28 %

3.ARTUR ARISTAKISIAN + SHARUNAS BARTAS + BRUNO DUMONT + FRED KELEMEN + BELA TARR
Each got 3 votes, or 21 %

Thank you very much for everyone who participated in my poll.

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--I’m glad that Alain Robbe-Grillet got the most votes from the first poll in MOON IN THE GUTTER’s blog:
http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com/2007/11/results-are-inand-moon-in-gutter-gets.html

As for the second poll in MOON IN THE GUTTER's blog, I voted for Eli Roth's THANKSGIVING as my favorite Thanksgiving-related film.

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--As for my second poll, it is still about Fred Kelemen. In the Thai book FILMVIRUS 2, Fred Kelemen gave a list of his favorite painters, including the six painters below. So I just would like to know who is your favorite painter among these six painters.

1.EL GRECO

2.ANSELM KIEFER

3.ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

4.NIKOLAI MAKAROV

5.MARK ROTHKO

6.EGON SCHIELE


--I will try to post some paintings of them below.

1.EL GRECO (1541-1614)
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/greco/

1.1 CHRIST ON THE CROSS ADORED BY DONORS (1585-1590)
This painting somehow reminds me of a scene in FROST (1997, Fred Kelemen, A+), in which the boy saw a figure of Christ on a cross, but he misunderstood that it was a real corpse.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2057760596_59dab56b1b_o.jpg


1.2 LAOCOON (1610)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/2057760602_c7db764019_o.jpg


1.3 THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH SEAL OF THE APOCALYPSE (1608-1614)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2105/2057760606_5ba2ff0414_o.jpg



2.ANSELM KIEFER
http://www.leninimports.com/anselm_kiefer_gallery.html#anselm_kiefer_gallery_5

It's not surprising that Fred Kelemen likes the paintings of Anselm Kiefer, because Kelemen's films are full of barren landscapes and bleakness which you also find in Anselm Kiefer's painting. Each of them also has a work called ABENDLAND.

INTERIOR SPACE (1981)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2370/2057760632_0f52dc0a31_o.jpg

DEM UNBEKANNTEN MALER (1983)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2057760620_8794aa1306_o.jpg

TWILIGHT OF THE WEST (ABENDLAND) (1989)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2273/2057760616_7fab6d2325_o.jpg


3.ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)
He committed suicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner

3.1 ARTILLERYMEN (1915)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2081/2057021423_c2e47c45c1_o.jpg

3.2 STAFEALP IM SCHNEE (1919)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2308/2057021431_ce61f59070_b.jpg

3.3 KAFFEETISCH (1923)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2057021429_12b11011bc_b.jpg