Movies: Painting

Spanish scientist Tomeo L'Amo bought a painting in 1989 that he believed to be an original Dalí. After 25 years of searching for the truth, an art expert in Paris changes his life....

Three different snapshots of family life are captured through the eyes of a painting, with the progression of technology getting in their way....

The life and times of artist Richard Ellis...

April 15, 1874, boulevard des Capucines, Paris: a group of young feverish painters shunned by the official Salon and mocked by the classical masters, chose to come together to exhibit their paintings freely, in the studio of photographer Nadar. At th...

A view of the life and works of the late Alex Colville, the celebrated Canadian painter. Shows the influence on his life and works of his experience as an artist during World War II, and of his relationship with his wife, Rhoda. Friends and critics s...

First film by Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian....

Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This film shows a meeting between the artist and Edythe Goodridge, art curator and critic. Through a combi...

Iván, a young newspaper delivery boy, discovers that Vera, a girl who receives his deliveries, puts them to an unexpected use. Intrigued by her, Iván decides to get to know her....

In search of his lost soul mate, an unpainted Vinylmation finds himself on a quest that alters the destiny of his entire world....

Tyler, a young gay man who is HIV positive, must deal with the demons of his past when he is confronted by a mysterious woman....

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Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The film retraces Francis' life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in...

A short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his disarming beauty....

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When an art gallery janitor messes up a new painting, she and her co-worker must stage a robbery to trick their egotistical boss....

A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting the walls of their houses....

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Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the canvas, resulting in dynamic paintings showing an overful, raging, run-away world. In 1962 awarded with ...