Publications by tag: art films

For many years, films about artists are haunted by some kind of evil fate: these films are either not feature motion or extremely far from biographical. When it comes to outstanding personalities, filmmakers tend to dramatize and romanticize. And considering the famous artists, such an attitude, perhaps, was most strongly reflected in films about Paul Gauguin. The filmmakers were even not too…

Watch a movie about the most popular contemporary artist who created idyllic landscapes.

Pablo Picasso is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His personal life was no less rich and diverse than creative. He lived in the heyday of cinema. And all the more strange it seems that so few films have been made about the Picasso's life. And even fewer of them are successful.

The biography of the Austrian artist is very short, but vivid. The Spanish flu took Schiele into the afterlife (together with his wife, six months pregnant) at the age of only 28 years. During that period, he managed to go to prison, to the war, to live with the Klimt's former model, and to marry a girl from a respectable family. It is not surprising that the events of his life multiple times…

Starring Andy Garcia and directed by Mick Davis, the 2004 feature film Modigliani begins with a lengthy screen of text. It explains in detail that the shown characters, events and pictures have nothing to do with reality. This is the first time the viewer wonders why the film is declared biographical. This question will come to your mind more and more often, especially if you are unlucky enough…