Painter Movies

A short look at the world of artist Arthur Lismer.

Known for his vibrant reinterpretations of classical portraits featuring African-American men, New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the...

Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of two parting gifts (her second is a film on Louise...

Documentary about the Dutch painter Caspar van Wittel.

About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...

An artist struggles with his latest portrait while working away at a manor house in the countryside. Just when he thinks he is getting inspired,...

A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings,...

Believing that his model is in trouble, a retired engineer, now an amateur painter, hires a private detective to find her.

A cinematic approach to the reclusive painter Joe Hackbarth, who became known as a jazz musician in the 1950s.

Dylan Prescott an expressionist painter, struggles with substance abuse, untreated bipolar disorder, a recently deceased mother and neglected...

Documentary about painter Petar Dobrovic.

The artist, whose father died in the war, begins to paint the sadness he experiences under the influence of drugs. However, because he was under the...