Inspired by Art

Game

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995)

Super Mario World 2 is the 2D platform that is very popular in the gaming community. Its features the well known Mario characters, however the graphics in this specific game differ from other instalments in the Mario series. This is because the Mario characters are in baby form therefore the background and graphics appear to be drawn with crayons and felt pens, giving the illusion of a child like design. The hand drawn aesthetic was a new style to the series and was produced from Mario games creator Shigeru Miyamoto as his distaste for the computer pre-rendered graphics of the previous games. The game was originally a story book and was later created into game form with the help of graphics producing an art and story influenced video game that would be accessible on most Nintendo platforms.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a platform video game that was developed and published in 1995 by Nintendo for the super Nintendo entertainment system. The game is the first to hold 'Yoshi' one of the characters in the Mario series, as the main character in his own game. Each of the levels casts a player as a different coloured Yoshi who must be escorted by baby Mario on his back to reach the end of the level this is very different to many other 'Mario' games as Mario and Luigi are typically the main characters. Even though Nintendo games are particually  one of my favourite brands of gaming products I will not be using the influnence of gaming in my final piece of my project.

Film

Disney's Tangled inspired by the painting  'The Swing' by Jean- Honore Fragonard 

Although the Disney production of the film 'Tangled'  (2010) was claimed to be inspired by the original Rapunzel it also holds other influences such as from the painting 'The Swing' by Jean-Honore Fragonard which was produced as an oil painting in the 18th century. It was considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era and to this day is still one of Fragonard's best known work.

Even though the modern Disney movie was finished in a slightly more edgier direction than the original Rapunzel, it was still inspired and built around the French painters art work. The painter is known for his hedonist themes and chocolate-box cuteness. However was forgotten after the pre- revolution in France as for country went into terror. The paintings that Jean produced were mainly floral instruments of aristocratic oppression. But that didn't prevent the Disney animators from using the painting, but to build onto the Rapunzel story even more. 

In the painting depicts an elegant woman sitting on a swing gracefully looking down at her potential 'lover', a smiling young man, hiding in the bushes on the left side of the oil painting. He watched her from a vantage point that allows his to see into her blowing dress, where is arm is pointed towards her with a hat in hand. She is surrounded by woodland and flowers while a shadowed older man is grasping the swing with rope and pulling her back towards him. This imagery is like Rapunzel's mother in the film when Rapunzel is locked within the tower; it has the same sort of feeling and is portrayed with a sense of control. The similarity's are obvious when looking at Jeans painting and when its compared to 'Rapunzel' or 'Tangled' you can see the inspiration behind both films.

Photography 

Norman Rockwell was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. Norman was very popular in the united states for the reflection of American culture. He is well known for the 300+ illustrations of everyday scenarios he created for the Saturday evening post magazine for over 47 years. Norman produced over 4,000 art pieces in his life time and many were created and composed by photographs that he used as part of his artistic process to create famous paintings and illustrations.

Working along side skilled photographers, Rockwell acted as a director, carefully orchestrating models, selecting props, and choosing locations for his photographs.

Art

'Starry night' inspired by' Starry night over Rhone' 

Edvard Munch created 'starry night' in 1893 a few years after Vincent Van Gough produced 'Starry night over Rhone' in 1888. As the 19th century was drawing closer, a lot of artists that worked with fine art rejected the realism of the Renaissance and enlightenment for more expressive styles that slowly came into 'fashion' in that era . Colour, tone and more expressive moods were valued more rather than the real or imagined people that were in previous art work. Edvard was known for his angst- ridden classic ' the scream' as picturesque qualities of the night were favoured more.
One of the most famous paintings that Vincent van Gough produced during his time was 'Starry night over Rhone' as well as being very well known for his impressionist art work in the late 19th century. The night sky was of of Vincent's most favourite subjects to paint and is still very common in pop culture till this day. His paintings of the night sky emphasise this impressions of colour of the night life with the street lighting of his time, the colours that he used suggest a calm atmosphere, and his use of tone and texture really bring the painting to life. 

In comparison to both artists 'starry night' was produced shortly after Vincents work, 5 years earlier, Edvard cherished the darkness of the night sky and the un for seen elements of the sky. However Vincent used lighting to create contrast and portray the artificial colours of the street light. Although both of 'starry nights' neither are completely the same. Edvard's work is more simplistic and personally quite boring as there isn't anything to automatically grab your attention as the colours that he has used are very bland.

Starry night over Rhone

Starry night