Van Gogh and the wheatfield with crows: from the painting to the videoclip

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2015v20n2p84

For a long time being a theme for reflections from scholars, academics and artists, interart relations maintains its importance and is renewed in contemporary artistic expressions. Today, the link between kinds of art and the discussions on the topic extend to other fields, going beyond literature and painting, and including photography, cinema and also new medias, such as advertising and videoclip. This article focuses on the link between different art forms, the engendering of an art in another, demonstrating mechanisms of the interart exercise, from the Vincent van Gogh painting, Wheatfield with Crows. It is proposed an analysis of how the subject of the painting, the colors blue and yellow, as well as the crows, appear in other art forms, in this case poetry (À luz dos vegetais, of Contador Borges), cinema (Dreams, of Akira Kurosawa), music and videoclip (Corvos sobre o campo, of Tantra). As theoretical base are used the concepts of multimedia and mixmídia, of Claus Clüver, and description and pictorial translation, of Liliane Louvel, as well as Thiago Soares discussions about videoclips.