Peter Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway (born 5 April 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a British film producer, screenwriter, and artist.

His films have been praised for their distinctive influence on Renaissance and Baroque painting, as well as Flemish painting in particular.

The scenic execution and illumination of his film are two key characteristics, as well as the comparisons of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture, and people.

Early life

Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, to a teacher mother and a builder's merchant father. When he was three years old, Greenaway's family left South Wales (they had gone there to escape the Blitz) and settled in Chingford, Essex. He attended Forest School in Walthamstow, which was close.

Greenaway began to paint at an early age. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on Ingmar Bergman's films and then on French modern vague filmmakers, particularly Alain Resnais. Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad (1961), Greenaway said, had the most influential influence on his own filmmaking (and he had a close working relationship with film's cinematographer Sacha Vierny). He now lives in Amsterdam.

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Career

Greenaway began training at Walthamstow College of Art in 1962, where a fellow student, Ian Dury, appeared in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover). Greenaway spent three years as a muralist; he made his first film, Death of Sentiment, a churchyard furniture essay shot in four large London cemeteries. He joined the Central Office of Information (COI), where he went on to work as a film editor and producer for fifteen years. He made a series of experimental films, beginning with Train (1966), a video of the last steam trains at Waterloo station (situated behind the COI), which was turned into a musique concrète film. Tree (1966) is a tribute to the troubled tree growing in concrete outside the Royal Festival Hall in London's South Bank. He was both confident and optimistic, and produced Vertical Features Remake and A Walk Through H, the former is an examination of various arithmetical editing methods, the latter being a ride through a fictional nation.

Greenaway's first feature film, The Falls (her first feature-length film) in 1980 – a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopedia of flight-related information relating to ninety-two victims of what is referred to as the Violent Unknown Event (VUE). In the 1980s, his cinema flourished in his best-known films, The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), A Zed & Two Noughts (1988), The Belly of an Architect (1987), A Zed & His Lover (1989), The Cook, a Bart (1988), The Cook (1988), The Cook (1989), The Carpenter and His Lover (1989). Michael Nyman, composer Michael Nyman, who has appeared in several films, is Greenaway's most recognizable musical collaborator during this period.

Greenaway appeared on a television series A TV Dante in 1989, focusing on the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno. Prote's Books (1991), The Baby of Mâcon (1993), The Pillow Book (1996), and 812 Women (1999).

Greenaway wrote ten opera libretti titled Death of a Composer series in the early 1990s, dealing with the commonalities of ten composers from Anton Webern to John Lennon's death, but the other composers are fictitious, and one of them is a character from The Falls. Louis Andriessen completed the sixth libretto, Rosa – A Horse Drama, in 1995. He is now a professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Greenaway unveiled the thrilling Tulse Luper Suitcases, a multimedia project that resulted in three films, a website, two books, a touring exhibition, and a shorter film that reworked the first three films' text.

Visions of Europe, a short film collection by various European Union artists, also contributed to Visions of Europe; his British entry is The European Showerbath. Two Rembrandt films, Nightwatching and Rembrandt's J'Accuse, were released in 2007 and 2008. Nightwatching is the first feature of the series "Dutch Masters," as part of Goltzius and the Pelican Company.

Greenaway performed his first VJ appearance at an art club evening in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar), as a backdrop, the ninety-two Tulse Luper stories were projected on the twelve screens of "Club 11," featuring the images live. This was later revived at the Optronica festival in London.

He created Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale, the Palace of Venaria's, which animated the palace with 100 videoprojectors on October 12, 2007.

Greenaway was interviewed for Clive Meyer's Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice (2011), and he raised serious concerns of film theory over other media outlets: "Are you really content with cinema as a thinking medium if you are only speaking to one person?"

He was awarded a Honoris Causa doctorate degree from the University of San Martn, Argentina, on May 3, 2016.

Greenaway began a series of digital video installations, Nine Classical Paintings Revisited, in 2006, as part of Rembrandt's Night Watch exhibit in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. Greenaway staged a one-night performance'remixing' da Vinci's The Last Supper in Milan's refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie to a select audience of dignitaries on June 30, 2008, after much discussion. With live music from composer Marco Robino, the performance consisted of imposing digital imagery and projections onto the painting.

As part of the 2009 Venice Biennial, Greenaway displayed his digital exploration of The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese. The New York Times' arts writer called it "probably the best unmanned art history lecture you'll ever hear," while admitting that some viewers might react to it as "poor art, Disneyfied kitsch, or a flamboyant denigration of site-specific video installation." Closeup photos of faces from the painting as well as animated diagrams demonstrating compositional relationships between the figures are included in the 50-minute presentation, which is set to a soundtrack. These photos are enlarged onto and around the painting that now stands on the original site, within the Benedictine refectory's Palladian architecture of San Giorgio Maggiore. According to the Gospels, the soundtrack features music and imagined dialogue scripted by Greenaway for the 126 "wedding guests, servants, onlookers, and wedding crashers" depicted in the painting, which was based on small talk and banal banter that culminates in reactions to Jesus' miraculous transformation of water to wine. Guernica, Seurat's Grande Jatte, paintings by Jackson Pollock and Claude Monet, Velázquez's Las Meninas, and Michelangelo's The Last Judgment are among potential series subjects.

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