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1) Paint
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public television painter is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke...until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The last years of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his...
4) Frida
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
Series
Criterion collection volume 154
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
6) Local color
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, in the suburb of Port Chester, New York, the teenage aspirant artist John Talia has a troubled relationship with his homophobic father who does not understand John's talent. While visiting his friend Yammi, John finds that the genius Russian painter Nicoli Seroff lives nearby. He decides to pay a visit to his idol. John finds a bitter alcoholic who is still grieving the loss of his wife Anya. Somehow, he successfully befriends the master....
7) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explores the latter part of eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
Publisher
Cleopatra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Beloved British artist L.S. Lowry lived all his life with his overbearing mother Elizabeth. Bedridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively tried to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, while never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment he was to her.
9) Goya
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation, and has fallen in love with a beautiful duchess. But he also finds himself becoming more and more remote from the daily life and suffering of the Spanish people, and is increasingly drawn to portraying their desires and nightmares in his paintings."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A painter is embittered by the loss of his sight. His 9-year-old neighbor hires herself to be his personal assistant to earn money for her quinceañara. A friendship blossoms. Inspired by the writings of Louise Hay, the story reminds us that the thoughts we choose create the life we live.
11) Renoir
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Description
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andraee, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son. Renoir locates a fascinating moment of change, with one century's way of thinking giving way to the next.
13) Starry night
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Gogh returns to life in modern-day Los Angeles a century after his death. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime, he is awestruck to learn that he is now considered one of the world's greatest artists. But no one believes that he's van Gogh, least of all his own lawyer, the media and a skeptical art detective who is out to prove that he's an impostor.
Series
Language
English
Description
Jerry Mulligan is an ex-G.I. and a struggling American painter in Paris. He is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist. Romance between Jerry and Lise becomes complicated.
16) Hilma
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Exploring Hilma af Klint's enigmatic life, now recognized as one of the Western world's first abstract artists. She defied convention to live a free life as an artist in a time when women could not even vote.
17) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...
18) Art machine
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This electric drama follows child prodigy painter Declan Truss, who at the age of six becomes an art world marvel. By the time heas seventeen, a chemical imbalance fueled by the tightrope of fame has led Declan to mental exhaustion. With a pushy mother and the pressures of an impending show bearing down upon him, Declan's world opens up when he chances upon a group of rebellious freethinkers in Brooklyn.
20) Lust for life
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.
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