Magical History Tour
 - Painting in Motion

Color design, lighting, composition, mood, subject: Painting – the works themselves, images, sketches, and the people that create them – has always been and continues to be a point of reference for filmmakers, cinematographers, scriptwriters and not least production designers. Using film to breathe movement into motionless pictorial art provides the visual worlds of the original artworks with new contexts and paves the way for a whole range of different semantic and perceptional shifts. Grappling with aspects of the lives and creative processes of artists and stylistic movements in cinematic terms opens up new perspectives on art history as an echo chamber for the production of film images. The Magical History Tour is showing examples of the productive relationship between painting and film that span nine decades.