En fortælling om Frida Kahlos kontroversielle liv på kunstscenen. Om hendes forhold til Diego Rivera og hendes affære med Leon Trotsky. Om hendes romantiske og frisindede omgang med andre kvinder. Om hendes kompromisløse liv som kunstner og kønspolitisk revolutionær.
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.
An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.
I 1950'ernes Moskva begynder kommunisten Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) at spionere for amerikanerne. Hendes job er at lokke hemmeligheder ud af embedsmanden Alexander (Sam Reid), men undervejs bliver hun forelsket i ham. 40 år senere møder vi pigen Lauren (også Rebecca Ferguson), og vi møder en ældre Alexander (nu spillet af Charles Dance). Hvad skete der egentlig med hans forhold til Katya for mange år siden? Og hvad er Laurens forbindelse til Alexander?
I dag er den svenske maler Hilma af Klint - der levede fra 1862 til 1944 - anerkendt som en af Vestens første abstrakte kunstnere. Men i en tid, hvor det er mænd, der laver spillereglerne, er der langt til succes, når man er en kvinde, der er forud for sin tid. Og efterhånden forstår Hilma, at omverdenen ikke er parat til hendes kunst, og beslutter derfor, at værkerne ikke må vises, før 20 år efter hendes død.
Året er 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck er en stort set glemt kunstner, som bor sammen med sin gamle mor. Det er flere år siden hendes sidste udstilling. Alt ændrer sig dog, da en kunsthandler finder Helene og vil arrangere en stor soloudstilling. Men det store vendepunkt i Helene's liv kommer først, da hun møder Einar Reuter. Einar er en ung skovfoged, som elsker Helenes værker. Han bliver Helenes fortrolige og elsker.
Seattle PD is investigating the murder of a man and Sakshi, a deaf and mute artist, and her husband Antony, a renowned cello player, are related to it.
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and music: in only eighteen months, she painted more than a thousand paintings. In 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win the favour of celebrated critics.
An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a modern icon, due to her personality and her unyielding defense of her professional integrity.
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.
A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.
A stunningly-crafted documentary that brings to life German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon in all her yearning for love and creative expression, her struggle to come to terms with her family history, and whose passion for beauty came face-to-face with the harsh reality of 1940s Europe. The title of this film comes from her remarkable 700-page painted life story in which she asks, “Where does life stop and art begin?” Director Franz Weisz masterfully weaves together interviews with people who knew her, family photographs, excerpts from a 1980 biopic, images of Charlotte’s vibrant paintings and a previously-unknown letter containing a shocking revelation.
In Barcelona, Queralt, a painter, tries to talk by phone with her daughter Gemma, also a painter, who lives and works in a small studio in Athens.
Portrait of the German and Jewish painter who lived during the war in the south of France, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where she painted 769 gouaches which recount her life, from her childhood, the suicide of her mother, her relationship to her father, to her mother-in-law, the singer Paula Lindberg, to a teacher whom she was secretly in love with, her flight to France, the reunion with her grandparents, until her arrest by the Gestapo who sent her to Auschwitz where she was assassinated in 1943.
Georgia O'Keeffe appears on camera for the first time to talk candidly about her work and her life in this 1977 documentary.
The story of the dramatic life of folk artist Kateryna Bilokur, who sacrificed the love for her calling.
This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.