Artist Movies

Satirical artist and art director, Suzanne Heintz, adopted her fake family more than 15 years ago to challenge persisting stereotypes about women's...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

At work on his Elegies and Windows series, Motherwell examines his place in the Abstract Expressionist movement, which he calls the first original...

"Three Colours Cézanne" analyses the radical nature of Cézanne's painting, tracing its origins in the art of the nineteenth century and...

Pleasures of the eye, David Hockney’s work has shown him to be one of the most versatile and influential artists of our time. The British...

A struggling artist is tortured by his day and finds his muse in the night.

A sculptor who longs to make more than plates, loses his vision to gain a new perspective.

A visual concoction of model photo-shoots, swimming routines, filmmaking, drowning, death and holocaust.

He was always busy making the absolute painting, one of Jaap Hillenius' sons says about his father. The artist who was killed in a car accident in...

An experimental film revolving around how an artist perceives a man and a woman.

A poor artist accidentally discovers the use of blood to paint his works and now he's on the search for the perfect color.

The story of two girls who resemble each other.

Six artists from different walks of life vie to win the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, the only juried art competition sponsored by the U.S. government.

This documentary profiles contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu, Barron Claiborne, and Sanford Biggers. Each monologue is a reflection of their life...

A documentary that traces the creation of the Philadelphia sculpture, Schuylkill Currents from the granite quarry through the refined finished public...

Yadira, a creative young Cuban girl, struggles packing on her final day home. Embarking on an immigration journey alone, her suitcase feels too small...

This film traces the elusive trajectory of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the American master of abstract expressionism who called his work "a pharmacy for...

In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic...