"painting"
Condo Painting
John McNaughton's spotlight on George Condo and his art. The film, which follows the progress of Condo's large-scale oil painting Big Red over the course of one year, features an appearance by Allen Ginsberg, as well as footage of Condo collaborating with William S. Burroughs on paintings the two made together at Burroughs' Kansas home in the mid-1..
Petersburg, Places and Paintings
The Russian/Dutch painter Tatyana Yassievich divides her time between St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Berlin. Director Van Lieshout follows her in these three cities, while she takes pictures and makes notes of everyday public spaces: train stations, blocks of flats, canteens. Subsequently, she paints them in a realistic, yet simplified style and wit..
Action Painting nº 1 / nº 2
Sex as a mutual creative gesture.
The Heart and the Six Paintings of Ruth Gardner
The history of the artist Ruth Gardner. That paints a picture in his own blood. The heroine of the film signed a contract with God himself. Who has promised to make Ruth famous all over the world, in exchange for a talent that had Ruth.
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution
A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfolded and he painted it. In the process he created a whole new kind of art. The programme examines nin..
Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer
Robert McGinnis' career as an artist is explored from the 1950s when he gained fame as a painter for Dell paperback book covers, through the 1960s when he created posters for such movies as "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Cotton Comes to Harlem" and numerous James Bond features, up to the present as a magazine illustrator and landscape painter.
An Impression of Piet Mondrian's New York Studio and His Last Painting
Mondrian's last painting, Victory Boogie-Woogie, which he began in 1943, sadly remained unfinished at the time of the artist's death on February 1, 1944, from pneumonia. The painter's sole heir was the young artist Harry Holtzman. During the German Blitz of London in 1940, Holtzman had arranged for Mondrian to come to New York. Holtzman rented an a..
Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3
Drones replace divine spirits in Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai's explosive film that contemplates the place for spirituality today through body painting, performative expression and catchy hip hop.
Cave Painting
It’s all the rage to evoke spectacular ‘immersive’ cinema today, but nothing matches the immersion effect of a Siegfried A. Fruhauf film. Agglomerating the textures of cave surfaces with the material traces of filmic processes, Cave Painting offers a trippy visual and sonic journey for the senses that evokes an avant-garde, grunge version of ..
Mona Lisa Revealed: Secrets of the Painting
On October 19, 2007 the news circled the globe that photographer/inventor Pascal Cotte succeeded in photographing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" at a resolution of 240 million pixels, 8 times higher than any professional camera to date. His breakthrough images brought to light never before seen elements that have forever altered our knowledge of t..
The Painting
The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece, “The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus”. The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece, “The Mar..
Painters Painting
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in the film include Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankentha..
14 Video Paintings
14 Video Paintings is comprised of two separate works ("Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan" and "Thursday Afternoon") created in the early 80s by Brian Eno for art gallery exhibition only. Viewers are presented with a series of slowly evolving "video paintings," with "Thursday Afternoon" focusing on the human figure and "Mistaken Memories" on..
Joni Mitchell: Painting with Words & Music
Joni Mitchell, la reine du folk/rock, se produit devant un public intime sur le terrain de Warner Brothers à Los Angeles en 1998. Ce concert est un classique de Joni Mitchell, et son répertoire couvre ici l'arc complet de sa carrière. Avec en toile de fond ses propres peintures, ce programme donne un aperçu unique des talents et de la vie de Jo..
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
Explores the paths being forged by six modern artists, giving us rare insight into the minds behind this rousing new wave of painting.
Painting the Town
In this town, I reckon that every place has had a coat of paint since I've lived here. There's always a bit of gloss drying somewhere
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
Sister Wendy Beckett takes a journey through the history of art in this ten-part series.
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
Art critic Alastair Sooke delves into the murky world of art theft. Despite the high stakes - and often daring - involved, many cases are shrouded in mystery and go unnoticed by the media. Around 47,000 works of art are reported missing each year, yet it is only the heists involving the world's most valuable paintings that hit the headlines. But h..
