For a post, I wanted to pick out one famous piece of art that went well with One Flew. The thing is...
there's a lot of art out there, so I couldn't decide. And so, in no particular order, paintings I think mesh well with One Flew:
The Scream
1. This was the piece I thought of first. A lot of the men at the ward deal with the anxiety that is shown in this painting. By Edvard Munch.
The Persistence of Memory
2. When I imagine shock therapy, this is what I think about. Melting time and confusing outlines of faces. Chief recalls many moments of his childhood during shock therapy. Shock therapy sounds like a really persistent memory to me. By Salvador Dali.
The Blind Man's Meal
3. This painting reminds me of Harding who, before McMurphy, blindly supported Ratched. Also, he's blue when his wife is around. By Picasso.
If you think of a painting that connects to One Flew write a comment or make a post!
This is not a specific photo, but many of Dali's paintings feature his famous "melting clock" (as shown in the persistence of memory photo above). This reminds me of the way time seems convoluted in the ward. Chief suspects "the combine" of manipulating time, speeding it up and slowing it down to suit there purposes. In this sense, the whole concept of time is twisted and deformed just like the clocks in Dali's paintings.
ReplyDeleteAll surrealistic art, such as Dali's, captures the Chief's perception of the ward. The Chief sees the ward as a machine and Nurse Ratched as a robot with the capability to perform such acts fit for a monster. I believe that Dali and other surrealist artists depict things similar to the Chief's imaginations in their work.
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