The Monuments Men: Stokes gives a lecture to Roosevelt and identifies a work by "Da Vinci", rather than Leonardo.The painting shown in the movie is Monet's 1906 "San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight". The Thomas Crown Affair (1999): The Monet stolen by TC is credited as being the first painting in the Impressionist school - Monet's "Impression: Sunrise" of 1872.Looney Tunes: Back in Action: The sequence at the Louvre Museum, in which Bugs Bunny and Daffy visit several iconic paintings to escape from Elmer Fudd, features paintings that aren't exposed there: The Persistence of Memory is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, all of the public versions of The Scream are either at the Munch Museum or at the National Gallery of Norway, both in Oslo, and A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is at the Art Institute of Chicago.Glass Onion: Miles Bron brags about being in possession of the original of The Mona Lisa however, it is larger than in real life and is painted on canvas, while the real deal is painted on wood.Ever After: Leonardo da Vinci is shown pulling the Mona Lisa out of a tube and unrolling it so that onlookers can admire it.Their scanners even assure them it's the original Mona Lisa-but it's still much larger than its Real Life counterpart.
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Equilibrium: In an early scene, the Grammaton Clerics capture and destroy a stash of contraband art, including the Mona Lisa.The word "rooftops" should have been "roofs". Dead Poets Society: Keating misquotes Walt Whitman's 1892 "Song of Myself".The painting's ornate wooden frame is also too heavy for an average person to lift unassisted. Even if "Virgin of the Rocks" did hang opposite the "Mona Lisa", it's 6 feet 6 inches (1.99 meters) tall, too tall for Sophie to see over. This painting is an enormous 32 feet (9.9 meters) wide.
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The painting directly across from the "Mona Lisa" is Caliari's "The Wedding Feast at Cana". "Madonna of the Rocks" hangs in the Grand Gallery, not the Salle des Etats.The bathrooms in that part of the Louvre have no windows and don't use bar soap. Sophie puts a GPS tracker on a bar of soap from the Louvre and throws it out the window onto a passing truck.A company would also be extremely unlikely to have just one principal dancer performing all the lead roles - most world-class companies would have around a dozen. In the world of ballet, because the lead roles are so strenuous and challenging, it's normal to have them shared by several dancers. Black Swan:: Nina is chosen to play the lead role in the company's touring production of Swan Lake.The key is that the story references a facet of the world of art as if it is authentic and the depiction is different from reality in a meaningful way.Ī Sub-Trope of Artistic License, and a Super-Trope to Wrongfully Attributed. Songs performed wrong, poems misquoted, paintings painted on the wrong material, buildings such as the Eiffel Tower or Taj Mahal misrepresented, and museums behind elaborate plots to steal all of Van Gogh's paintings are all possible examples of this trope. The artwork or process must be presented as Real Life in order for the artistic license to be taken. If it's presented as a 6-foot-tall statue it fits this trope.Ĭan be averted through Fictional Painting. Should Michelangelo's David be picked up by a crane or person(!) that couldn't possibly lift 6 tons, but is still 17 feet tall and looks the same as in real life, that's Hollywood Density. Should Buddy be playing a banjo rather than his Stratocaster, the artwork has changed and fits this trope.Ĭontrast with Hollywood Density. Should a piece of artwork not exist in the time period of the story, such as Buddy Holly playing a 1965 Fender Stratocaster in 1959, history is the problem, not the artwork. It also includes distorting facts about the world of art and artworks.Ĭontrast with Artistic License – History. It includes taking liberties with how the world of art works, such as speeding up the time it take to appraise a piece, or how museums acquire artwork. The artwork can be a painting, a poem, a song, a building, an invention, or any other piece that would be called art. There may be easy ways around the Plot Hole addressed through the artistic license or it could be practically impossible to tell the creator's story without this break from reality. The creator may or may not be aware of the artistic license being taken.
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Since the needs of the story outweigh the need for accuracy and Tropes Are Tools, creators will often have their protagonist roll up a canvas Mona Lisa and carry it off in a tube, although Leonardo da Vinci painted it on a wood panel. The world of art as portrayed in stories is often inaccurate. "Why is she smiling? I bet it's because of her size changing secret."