Painting Movies

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the...

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists...

A day in the life of the Belgian painter, Michaël Borremans.

During Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with...

Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in...

A critical analysis about Andrea del Castagno's "Last Supper", a Renaissance painting housed in the Church of Sant'Apollonia in Florence.

The Portable Studio is a short documentary following Jenny Aitken on a day of Plein-Air painting by the sea in Edinburgh. Jenny is a professional...

A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at...

Las Muralistas features women muralists whose works cover the walls of San Francisco’s Mission District. The muralism movement that emerged in...

Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, Claudette’s Star depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a...

This critofilm illustrates the relationship between figurative art and numismatic decorations. The commentary lists the main iconographic themes,...

An erotic horror film about a boy who sleeps naked on a hot summer night and suddenly discovers that he's not alone.

Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

A girl meets a boy at his apartment for a blind date. They quickly discover their incompatibility.

Two friends wonder about the meaning of a weird picture that one of them has framed on the wall. Maybe that absurd doodle has more sense than they...

Portrait of the painter Manuel Moldes, from Pontevedra, Spain, about the work he does in the preparation of a retrospective of his work.

A young artist and his friend reevaluate their contradicting perceptions on life and who they're becoming to eachother.

Barbara Rosenthal, naked and pregnant, paints a wall.