Painter Movies

Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in...

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

While a socially anxious college student is having a hard time finding inspiration for his thesis painting, he meets a stranger in a casual encounter...

Young painter Emma struggles to balance a rocky art career and complicated relationship with her husband. All the while, a dark presence looms over...

1950 Belgian short documentary by Paul Haesaerts

Provides a biography of John James Audubon, including his youth, his struggles to resolve repeated business failures with an intense interest in...

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20...

Pierre August Renoir's brilliant Le Moulin de la Gallette created immense controversy in its day. Famous for his use of hot reds, orange and gold to...

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures,...

After exhausting his resources, a painter’s effort to complete his work becomes an act of dissolution.

A wily 87-year-old New Yorker, Judith Godwin is one of very few women of the Abstract Expressionist Movement. A creative awakening in college led her...

Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of...

A documentary about Tintoretto.

When an aspiring painter grapples with self-doubt in his artistic journey, his father must learn to love and accept him for who he is.

A young painter's hopes, fears, and dreams emerge while he struggles to put together his portfolio.

Documentary about the belgian painter Roger Raveel (1921-2013) as part of his centennial celebration.

About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak is on the quest to explain exactly what the Sistine Chapel's ceiling is actually trying to tell us.