Painting Movies

To mark the artist Fernando Botero's 75th birthday, Peter Schamoni made a documentary film about his moving life. Fernando Botero is immediately...

Several emblematic buildings in Vienna suffer from a series of explosions that destroy works of art of inestimable value, as well as generating a...

This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by...

A kid's artistic expression turns to obsession as the paint blisters on a canvas.

The life of a young man, left to spells and monsters, according to the paintings by Leonor Fini.

This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged...

Short documentary on the Belgian painter Max Selen.

When an ominous new painting the Figlia Dell' Oscurita is brought into a museum, no one can predict the carnage that ensues.

Covers a spiritual culture based upon reverence for the land and the spiritual dimension known as the Dreamtime.

The story revolves around the life of Mi, a free-spirited young woman in the very conservative 1940's Burmese society, and her many lovers. She...

In 1930s rural England, a young housemaid, Alice, becomes entangled in suspicion and power games when her employer, Beatrice, uncovers a hidden...

Documentary film about Gothic painting and its representatives.

Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people...

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately...

A grieving artist and his struggle to find worth within his work.

A Renaissance masterpiece painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Ambassadors” is teeming with details and hidden messages. By...

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.