Painting in Pirates of the Caribbean entitled "A Portrait of Things to Come"
Well, here's a painting from the Pirates of the Caribbean Ride done by Disney artist Marc Davis. I first saw it in a View Master reel as a boy and looked for it when I finally got to go on the ride. It was right where it should be over the bar. This painting is currently my screen saver.
UPDATE: I learned the title of this painting is "A Portrait of Things to Come". Apparently there is some controversy over who may have done the
actual painting. It's well documented that Marc did the conceptual
design (below) but the rather amateurish finished work appears like it was done by another hand. Was Marc trying to emulate a more primitive style that would fit better with the time period? Perhaps.
MARC DAVIS SKETCH
Someone with the handle Jimmydonc.tellnotales did a painting based on the Davis concept art, and it too is a treat. I don't know what your preference is but I kind of like the native feel of the painting that lives in the park.
Jimmydonc. painting more accurately following Davis sketch
It’s never been mentioned in anything I’ve read about the making of Disney’s “Fantasia”, but was this film influential in any degree? Heinrich Kley is clearly an inspiration and only recently being acknowledged but what about “La Joie de Vivre” (The Joy of Living), by Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin?
Could this 1934 film have inspired the Tchaikovsky Nutcracker sequences of the 1940 film “Fantasia”? To me the sprites of “La Joie de Vivre” looks strikingly like the fairies in Fantasia with their long legs and relationship to nature. The nude bathing scene in particular has all the proportional designs of the fairies and echoes of the ice fairy can be seen in their involvement with the lake. The sprites of “La Joie de Vivre” make flowers grow and dance among leaves. They also disguise themselves as flowers and the Disney’s fairies are introduced emerging from flowers, and have similar interactions with nature. There seems to be many parallel elements to me.
I see “La Joie de Vivre” as a viable springboard to “Fantasia”. It also reminds me graphically of what Lionel Feiniger, (“The Kin-der-kids”) might have looked like animated. I also see some “Yellow Submarine” too.
