Painter As Artist Movies

Few artist portraits give us the privilege of getting as close to the painter as if we had free access to his studio. Over a period of three years,...

1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling.

A musical comedy where a Parisian dachshund is tasked with painting a portrait of a chihuahua who won't stop shaking. Only a trio of minstrels can...

An artist is so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late. Shot as a silent...

Train Bombing is the story of a young graffiti artist who by an unlikely series of events accidently creates the masterpiece of his life.

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism.

A young, passionate painter struggles to sell his art and desperately needs money. When he stumbles across a series of paintings by another artist,...

A former Catelli pasta factory, located at the confluence of Petite-Patrie, Mile-End and Little Italy, has over time become the refuge of many...

July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract art. At the core of this film is a dramatic...

Uka, a little girl who lives in an abandoned factory, finds a way of changing how she sees the world while painting on her canvas.

Detailed analysis of the famous polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers, housed in Ghent Cathedral.

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the...

The documentary is about an old man from Yerevan who paints on garages, transforming rusty metal walls into vivid landscapes and leaving a subtle yet...