Art

Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Focused on French painter Paul Gauguin's affair with a younger lady in Tahiti.

An account of the famous French sculptor's romance with Camille Claudel.

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

J.M.W. Turner, an unconventional British painter, goes down memory lane and recalls his romantic relationship with a seaside landlady and the various accolades he received for his works of art.

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.

Vienna, early 20th century: the young Egon Schiele is one of the most discussed artists of his time with his original, erotically charged works.

The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.

Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

An intoxicating biopic about the art world's "mad genius" Vincent Van Gogh.

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

A cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery's exhibition Goya: The Portraits.

A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.

Biography of famed artist Salvador Dali, focusing mainly on his relationship with girlfriend Gala and the time they spent in New York City in 1940 and his early days in Spain collaborating with filmmaker Luis Bunuel.

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez's work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.

The intimate story of the most illustrious brotherhood of impressionist artists: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet.

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.