A obra começa em 1971, nos arredores de Paris, onde o aspirante a pintor Gilles (Clément Métayer) e seus amigos Alain (Félix Armand), Jean-Pierre (Hugo Conzelmann) e Christine (Lola Créton), trabalham na disseminação de ideias revolucionárias e anarquistas. Quando um protesto dá errado, porém, eles precisam afastar-se da cidade em que vivem. Iniciam então jornadas distintas de conhecimento, de busca por ideias, inspiração e aprendizado.
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.
Josef K acorda um dia e se vê com a polícia em seu quarto. Após ser preso e responder a um processo, passa a investigar o motivo de estar sendo investigado.
James Figueras, um crítico de arte charmoso e ambicioso, caiu em desgraça. Passa os seus dias em Milão a dar palestras sobre história de arte para turistas ignorantes. A sua única réstia de esperança é o seu novo interesse amoroso, a enigmática americana Berenice. Dá-se uma oportunidade quando é contactado por um abastado negociante de arte, Joseph Cassidy, que convida James para a sua vivenda no Lago Como, e lhe pede para roubar um quadro ao lendário artista solitário Jerome Debney. Mas logo a ganância e a ambição de James levam a melhor sobre si e deixam-no preso numa teia feita por si mesmo.
Enquanto de visita a Paris, em 1964, James Lord, escritor americano e amante das artes, é convidado pelo reconhecido artista Albert Giacometti a pousar para um retrato. Giacometti assegura a Lord que o processo demorará apenas alguns dias. Lisonjeado e curioso, Lord concorda em posar. Assim começa não só a história de uma peculiar amizade, mas também uma exploração, através do olhar de Lord, sobre a beleza, frustração, profundidade e ocasional caos do processo artístico.
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
A former Catelli pasta factory, located at the confluence of Petite-Patrie, Mile-End and Little Italy, has over time become the refuge of many renowned artists, an important place of creation for contemporary painting. Montrealer. Chance encounters, proximity and exchanges enrich their respective work. But real estate speculation threatens the sustainability of these artists' studios. Fight to create, create to fight: this documentary opens the door to these inspiring places, which will soon no longer be so. A journey into the spirit of creation — despite everything.
Reynivellir is a representation of the transit that is generated when approaching the art work, described with visual games that can well be evoked by the same brain when witnessing the impossible figures of Jose María Yturralde. Reynivellir is also a beach in a country that is a musical sonnet, and this is so because the mental image does not always connect the articulated parts of a sensation, it is systematic, but aleatory, and it is from these notions of the field of observation, that it approaches and moves away from understanding, linking and unlinking forms, movements, sounds, sensations and knowledge.
Train Bombing is the story of a young graffiti artist who by an unlikely series of events accidently creates the masterpiece of his life.
An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.
Jojo, a Filipino artist in Paris who has had many lovers, but constantly finds himself desperate to fill the chasm in his life occupied by the mysterious muse of his paintings. For years, his heart is held captive by a woman with no name and no history. Like a compass, Jojo looks for her in every girl he meets, hoping she will be “the one.” One day, a woman named Marie, walks up to Jojo and claims to be the subject of his paintings.
A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts of his lectures.
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scientist uncle, the student having never heard of her before their chance encounter and both unaware that she is the result of the scientist's illegal experiments with artificial insemination..
For years, artist Drew Friedman has chronicled a strange, alternate universe populated by forgotten Hollywood stars, old Jewish comedians and liver-spotted elevator operators. Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt is an in-depth documentary tracing artist Friedman's evolution from underground comics to the cover of The New Yorker. The film, directed by Kevin Dougherty, features interviews with Friedman's friends and colleagues, including Gilbert Gottfried, Patton Oswalt, Richard Kind, Mike Judge, Merrill Markoe and many others.
Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism.