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Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Pablo Picasso was a legend whose paintings almost everyone can visualize today. The film works through the artworks of Picasso in chronological order and discusses the forces that inspired them, whether in the personal life of the artist or the wider world.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Ken Burns traces the life and turbulent career of one of America's best known and least understood painters. A bittersweet portrait combining rare archival material, commentary by those close to him, and a collection of his stunning paintings.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The last years of the great French painter Vincent van Gogh. 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.
8) Tulip fever
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
"But if it doesn't exactly feel revelatory or deeply explored as a historical document, it's still an intriguing story, capably told."--Entertainment Weekly.
"As white savior stories go, it's still progress to find one that lives up to such...
11) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
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