Film
Experimentation with CGI continued and in 2007 led to a film in which the light-hearted tones of Chicken Little were put aside in favour of a story in which comedy and drama again interpenetrate in heavy doses. Thus, a child inventor meets a mysterious traveller from the future and helps him track down a dangerous thief guilty of stealing a valuable device. A film that dwells on the importance of failure: it is only through defeats that one learns to hold on, not to give up and to correct one's course. A didactic film that wants to teach us all too clearly that if we do not learn to overcome our traumas we will only end up poisoning our souls, like the Bombetta man. The moral 'always move on' is often repeated throughout the film and finds its most worthy enunciation in the finale.
Art
In a modified and stylised form, we see a painting of a picnic pop up in the film in full Impressionist style. Prior to Impressionism, the en plein air depiction of scenes of everyday life was not part of the genres practised by artists of colour: convivial or informal outdoor scenes, let alone lunches or picnics, were not painted. The social spread of the picnic and the rise of Impressionism can be said to have travelled practically simultaneously. Initially, from at least the 1600s, the picnic had been a custom of the nobility, who sometimes liked to lunch outdoors during hunting breaks, or to escape the rigid ceremonial of official aristocratic banquets. Later, in the 19th century, the custom of eating in the meadows, in contact with nature, with simple food prepared especially for the occasion, had spread among all social strata. For city dwellers, it was and is an informal way to be in the company (of friends, family or a lover), and to escape from the rhythms of daily life and, by savouring meals in a more relaxed and less conventional manner, rediscover at least for a few hours the relaxation and tranquillity of the countryside.
In those same years, painters such as Monet, Manet or Degas, in search of new forms of representation of reality, had begun to favour, for their paintings, scenes of everyday life, preferably outdoors and outside the city, where it was easier to capture, in the subjects they portrayed, more relaxed and spontaneous attitudes, in a word more authentic. The earliest example of picnic representation is provided by Edouard Manet's famous painting, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (Breakfast on the Grass), an 1863 painting that is now an icon in the history of modern art. However, in the style of depiction and the clothing of the characters, what we see in The Robinsons - A Space Family is more reminiscent of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's The Rowers' Breakfast (1881).
External links
Watch Meeting the Robinsons on Disney+
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