Films About Painters

This biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

A poor painter falls in love with a photograph of a woman while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands.

A documentary about fraud and fakery.

A documentary about fraud and fakery.

The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.

The story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.

In Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him.

The first abstract artist was a woman, misjudged and concealed, Hilma Klint rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre.

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.