Not everything has to do something, James.
Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We at Sartle have a love/hate relationship with agent 007. On the one hand, he’s, well…this:
On the other hand, 007 and Sartle have a lot of things in common. The film Skyfall taught us that Bond is a passionate devotee of J. M. W. Turner.
Daniel Craig as 007 enjoys the Turners at the National Gallery, London.
Like Sartle, Bond also loves a stiff drink, beautiful women, gratuitous nudity, raunchy innuendo and quotably bad dialogue. In honour of our mutual passions, we’ve taken the liberty of matching the best and worst of 007 one-liners with the best and worst of what the powers that be call “fine art.”
Santa Claus by Paul McCarthy, at the Rotterdam Metro. Quote from The World is Not Enough (1999)
Chicken Knickers by Sarah Lucas, at the Tate Britain. Quote from Goldfinger (1964).
Saturn Devouring His Son by Peter Paul Rubens, at the Prado National Museum. Quote from License to Kill (1989).
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter, at the Mauritshuis. Quote from Casino Royale (2006).
Dropped Cone by Claes Oldenburg, at the Neumarkt Galerie Cologne. Quote from For Your Eyes Only (1981).
Judith Beheading Holofornes by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, at the National Gallery of Ancient Art. Quote from License to Kill (1989).
Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley, at the National Gallery of Art Washington DC. Quote from Moonraker (1979).
Portrait of Louise de Kerouaille by Pierre Mignard, at the National Portrait Gallery London. Quote from Dr. No (1962).
Sr. Contributor
You guys have to do a blog of the artworks in ALL the bond movies!