Word: spilliaert
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...same effect as the camera turning around Jimmy Stewart's embrace of Novak later in the movie. The aerial shot of Cary Grant in the cornfield in North by Northwest - with a road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen - draws on Léon Spilliaert's Le Paquebot ou L'Estran, a painting of alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretching to the tip of the canvas. Add some trees in front of the house in Edward Hopper's Lighthouse Hill, take away the lighthouse, and you have the Bates family's haunted...
...19th century was, however, one of mood. Whether the artist was Degouve de Nuncques painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city abandoned to the sea, or Leon Spilliaert producing a haunted self-portrait, the images constantly predict the sense of solitude and disquiet in which surrealism reveled...
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