Whosever painting it was, if the painting was still under copyright, the producers would have to get a license to use it from the copyright holder. For that reason, producers often choose to either (a) use a work of art old enough that it’s out of copyright, or (b) commission an original work of art, and thereby be the copyright holder.
Not sure which show you were watching but the lottery win season was the last season.
The picture in the clip was pretty blurred, but I think it could be by Maurice Utrillo. His paintings of Paris used to be popular among working class Americans. Sears and Walmart used to sell framed prints of his works.
I went through a couple different sites with Maurice Utrillo work, but didn’t see the painting in question.
It could also be a knock made by the crew. All the cereal boxes and canned good were fakes that resembled recognizable brands, but weren’t. In the clip it looks to me like a phonied up Caillebotte-like painting Zeldar mentioned. You can alomst make out vague umbrella shapes.
Oh, I also just thought… when I was set-building we also did have some bogus artwork for a TV series (set was a fake antiquities museum) and the paintings were deliberately made to be a bit murky because they’d otherwise record with distracting clarity on video. Just thought I’d add that in with my theory in the previous post. That may not be the case for a major TV sitcom, but it’s kind of plausible: fuzzy-made set piece.
Wasn’t there something about everybody being a lesbian and the whole last season simply being a literary creation of the main character?
Funny, I somehow got the impression that whole process had taken two or three years to play out.
No, that was all done within the final season. Well, Bev may have come out as a lesbian the season before, I can’t remember, but the lottery win was in the last season, which, you are right, was in the last episode revealed to have been a book written by Roseanne Connor to help her cope with her grief over Dan’s death (the character suffered a heart attack on the show; in the fictional final season he lived but in the finale he had died). Other changes included Beverly not really being a lesbian but Jackie was and the two daughters married the opposite Healy brothers.
Still trying to find the painting. It’s in season one & on. Seems Parisian on a rainy day, that’s why it’s blurry. I love that painting & the one in the hallway of the ocean as well. It’s a shame about the lesbian crap. And Roseanne seems to put on airs about being Conservative at times but allowed that trash onto the show. No True Conservative can support that trash. If anyone were to say, but I’m Conservative & support it, then their imagination is just like a man or woman with pronouns that identify with that as Legion from the Bible.
Can you post a pic from the show that shows the painting in question?
Here is a picture of their bedroom. The painting is above the bed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/roseanne/comments/1cfnymz/dj_school_picture_roseanne/
I just screengrabbed the painting, ran it through Google Image Search, and the first of several look-alike paintings was identical to the one in the TV shot EXCEPT for the position and size of the streetlight.
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