Un pintor de celuloide

• Autores: Zigor Etxebeste
• Localización: Nosferatu: Revista de cine, ISSN 1131-9372, Nº 44-45, 2003, págs. 75-83
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • A celluloid artist: painting and colour in the work of Akira Kurosawa
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• Resumen

  • The influence of painting in cinema is a recurrent subject of cinematographic studies and this article approaches the possible relations between Kurosawa´s cinema and the art of painting, divides in three sections. In the first part, the analysis is focused on the various pictorial roots of Kurosawa´s image, whose backgrounds are connected either to Orient or Occident. Related to this, the second part observes those seven films made by the director since the astonishing , Dodeskaden in 1970, which peculiarity is the imaginative and unique use of colour. Finally, in the last section appears an introduction of Kurosawa as a painter, including few data of his relation with painting in his youth and a brief commentary about his drawings and storyboards for his films, from Kagemusha (1989) to his very last motion picture, Madadayo (1993).