Art and Artists on Film
The lives of the artists that continue to inspire are among those gathered together in this collection of art-related films and documentaries. The names of these artists alone instantly conjure images in the mind of their justifiably famous works. People like Rembrandt, Picasso, Van Gogh, Warhol, Pollock, Kahlo, Gauguin, Munch, Basquiat, Hockney, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Bacon, Escher and more can all be found in the lists that follow.
Andrei Rublev (1966)
8.2/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film 'Andrei Rublev' charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th century Russia... Read more
Picasso - Magic, Sex and Death (2002)
Director: Waldemar Januszczak
Starring: Pablo Picasso, John Richardson
The definitive film biography of the 20th century's greatest artist, Pablo Picasso. Programme One: Magic (1881-1914). John Richardson, Picasso's frien... Read more
Dior and I (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Frederic Tcheng
Starring: Raf Simons
Frédéric Tcheng's solo directorial debut brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-... Read more
Seraphine (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Martin Provost
Starring: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Genevieve Mnich, Nico Rogner, Franco...
Frenchwoman Seraphine de Senlis, lived from 1864 to 1942. A shepherdess and housekeeper, in her private hours she painted incredible floral arrangemen... Read more
I Shot Andy Warhol (1995)
6.6/10
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Ann...
Lili Taylor is eerily convincing as Valerie Solanas, Factory fringe figure, founder and only member of SCUM (Society for Cutting up Men) and the woman... Read more
Artemisia (1997)
6.8/10
Director: Agnes Merlet
Starring: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Maurice Garrel
A powerful biographic study of a talented Italian woman artist, Artemisia Gentileshi, struggling against the narrow mindedness of Renaissance attitude... Read more
Basquiat (1996)
6.9/10
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Claire Forlani, Willem...
Jeffrey Wright is mesmerising in this true story as Jean-Michel Basquiat, a poor Haitian-American graffiti artist who rapidly ascends New York's raref... Read more
David Hockney: A Bigger Splash (1974)
7.9/10
Director: Jack Hazan
Starring: David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Kasmin
An innovative blend of fact and fiction reflecting the world of David Hockney. This feature incorporates Hockney's art and unabashed lifestyle in bold... Read more
Modigliani (2003)
7.4/10
Director: Mick Davis
Starring: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Eva Herzigova
Amedeo Modigliani was a gifted artist and contemporary rival of Picasso's in Bohemian 1910s Paris. Andy Garcia plays the Jewish Italian immigrant as... Read more
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution (2001)
8.2/10
Director: Bruce Alfred
"The Impressionists" looks at the men who formed the core of the movement; Degas, Pisarro, Renoir and Monet. Despite their very disparate backgrounds... Read more