Frieze Magazine runs an ongoing series asking artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice. Below is an excerpt from Peter Doig’s segment:
“A lot of people have assumed my paintings are influenced by or based on films, but it’s not that literal. I’ve directly referenced only one film still in my work, a figure in a canoe on a lake taken from Friday the 13th (1980, directed by Sean S. Cunningham). Of course, all artists are interested in film – I don’t know one that doesn’t have an opinion about music or movies. Cinema is, after all, the most important art form of our time.”
Peter Doig - Canoe Lake