It helps me with my art studies!.
Ive seen
Frida (terrific film)
Basquiat
Van Gogh
Andy Warhol
What others are that you know!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Ive seen Frida (terrific film) Basquiat Van Gogh Andy Warhol What others are that you know!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi! I love them too: Artemisia (Gentileschi), Camille Claudel Rembrandt (1936!) The Mystery of Picasso (documentary) Love is the Devil (about Francis Bacon) Girl With a Pearl Earring Goya in Bordeaux Caravaggio Goya's Ghosts Klimt Pontormo: A Heretical Love Andrei Rublev Edvard Munch The Moon and Sixpence Surviving Picasso The Wolf at the Door (Gauguin) This is good!.!. I found a whole forum about it with many more! Enjoy:) http://ask!.metafilter!.com/44855/Movies-a!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Most of the fictional accounts of artist's lives are terrible, clichéd tripe!. Lust For Life about Van Gogh epitomises this genre!. You really won't learn anything about are by watching them!. Basquiat is the exception to the rule basically because the film was made by his friend and fellow artist Julian Schnabel!. A really great documentary film about artists talking about their own work is "Painters Painting" (1972) Director: Emile de Antonio!. This focuses on the main players in US art scene at the time and is a fascinating incite into what it is to be creative!. I think this is the documentary where Barnet Newman says "aesthetics is to artists what aerodynamics is to birds"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale !. !. !. (2008) an interesting look into the intense and troubled artist's life, creations and slide (HBO special) My Kid Could Paint That !. !. !. (2007) the story of four-year-old Marla Olmstead and the controversy over her $15,000 abstract expressionist canvases!. Asks some good questions about "what is art!?" and "what is an artist!?" An Unmarried Woman !. !. !. !. (1978 Jill Clayburg and Alan Bates) is more about a woman's journey to independence following a bad marital break-up, but the art angle and the art scene is delightful!. Check out the incredible liquid-looking sculptures one artist does, and the great "poured" canvases Bates creates!Www@QuestionHome@Com Moulin Rouge (1952) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Agony and the Ecstasy, Michelangelo Lust for Life (1956) Vincent van Gogh Vincent & Theo, Vincent Van Gogh Surviving PicassoWww@QuestionHome@Com modigliani pollock there is a series called artists of the 20th c!.!.!.!.francis bacon search on netflixWww@QuestionHome@Com modigliani!.!.!.can't think of any other besides the ones you statedWww@QuestionHome@Com "Pollock" is a GREAT one!.!.!. The life of Jackson Pollock!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |