Movies About The Lives of Painters
Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, such as the lives of the world-famous painters about the movies of the subject area, with the unique works of artists offer a perfect visuality.
These biographical films do not only present the works and lives of painters but also give us an idea of the fashion, make-up, entertainment concepts, living standards and conditions of that period.
Klimt
It is a magnificent allegory of cinema with its music. This extraordinary film of director Raoúl Ruiz is a homage to the painter Klimt. He brings the original historical ground of the end of the 19th century to the screen with great vitality. The Alegoriler painting, which the state ordered to the painter, turned into a big scandal. We are witnessing Gustav Klimt, who is considered to be the symbol of numerous art nouveau style based on sexuality. We meet with the magician Méliès and the mysterious dancer of the painter, his friends and other contemporaries such as Franz Matsch, Egon Schiele, Carl Moll, Adolf Loos, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and others.
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Production: 2006 - Germany, Austria, France, UK
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Star: John Malkovich, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Veronica Ferres, Sandra Ceccarelli
IMDB Score: 5.2
Surviving Picasso
Adapted from Arianna Huffington's book, the film conveys the relationship between women who are Picasso's greatest source of inspiration, one of them, Françoise Gilot. In the film, we see a brutal and selfish Picasso against women. Still, watching Picasso in his paintings creates a sense that it is not unfair to divine himself. Antony Hopkins, who plays Picasso in the film, performs as well as always to please the audience.
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Production: 1996 - USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Director: James Ivory
Star: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Dennis Boutsikaris
IMDB Score: 6.4
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
The film is about the different life stories of the painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of the most important figures of the expressionist movement known as the greatest British painter of the 20th century. Her relationship with a brilliant artist and her lover and muse are revealed in the moments when love and sexuality intersect with the art in a dangerous way.
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Production: 1998 - UK
Genre: Biography
Director: John Maybury
Star: Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Derek Jacobi, Karl Johnson, Adrian
IMDB Score: 6.4
Renoir
The story of the French celebrated painter Auguste Renoir and his son was conveyed. Renoir lost the meaning of his life after his wife died. The painter who lives only to live began to hold his life again thanks to a beautiful young woman named Andree who came in to be a model in his paintings. The artist, who admires the young woman, is now full of hope and can do her work. Renoir's son, Jean, is a soldier during the war. He came to Cote d'Azur to see his father. Renoir's son was admiring when he saw Andree, the beautiful young woman...
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Production: 2012 France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Star: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers
IMDB Score: 6.5
Little Ashes
In 1922, Madrid was a challenging war between the traditional values, jazz, Freud and the dangerous effects of innovation. Salvador Dali entered university at the age of 18 with a passion for being a great artist. The strange blend of his shyness and wry demonstration drew the attention of two people from the social stratum in the university; Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. The film is about the youth of this trio, their friendship, their relationship in different ways and their rise in their branches as a painter, a poet, and a director.
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Production: 2008 - England, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Paul Morrison
Star: Robert Pattinson, Arly Jover, Javier Beltran, Matthew McNulty, Vicky Peña
IMDB Score: 6.6
El Greco
It is a great film about the life of the famous painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, whom the world knows as "El Greco". In the film you can watch the artist's war for freedom and the artist's life strikingly...
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Production: 2007 - Greece, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Yannis Smaragdis
Star: Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull, Giorgos Karamihos, Dimitra Matsouka, Sotiris Moustakas
IMDB Score: 6.7
Lautrec
A film about the life of the famous French painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, who lived in the cultural life of Montmartre in Paris in the late 1800s. Traditionally, it suffered from congenital health conditions attributed to kinship. His lifestyle and work represented the Parisian bohemian lifestyle of the late 19th century. At the opening of the Moulin Rouge cabaret began to prepare a series of posters. As an alcoholic, he was addicted to absinthe. The film associates a love affair with French painter Suzanne Valadon...
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Production: 1998-France, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Roger Planchon
Star: Régis Royer, Elsa Zylberstein, Anémone
IMDB Score: 6.8
Mr. Turner
A film about the life of the British painter J.M.W. Turner, who is known for his landscapes and natural events, oil paintings and watercolors. J.M.W. Turner, one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement and Impressionism, is one of the most popular painters of the 19th century. The film reveals the art world of London in the last 25 years of the famous painter's life...
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Production: 2014 - UK
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Mike Leigh
Star: Timothy Spall, Richard Bremmer, Tom Wlaschiha, Jamie Thomas King, Lesley Manville
IMDB Score: 6.8
Artemisia
Artemisia Gentileschi is the first of many well-known women painters. The film tells the story of her father being protected and directed by Orazio Gentileschi when she was just a child. The male anatomy he is interested in because of his professional curiosity, though he is forbidden, leads him to various sexual pleasures. What made her famous was the accusation that Artemisia's art teacher raped the young girl in 1612. Artemisia tries to protect him, but he can't succeed...
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Production: 1997 - Germany, Italy, France
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Agnès Merlet
Star: Emmanuelle Devos, Brigitte Catillon, Valentina Cervi, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Liliane Rovère
IMDB Score: 6.8
Goya's Ghosts
Francisco Goya, King IV as the most famous painter of Spain in the late 1700s. He gives the most successful works of his art under the patronage of Carlos. The beautiful Inés, deemed by Francisco Goya to be his muse, was accused by the Inquisition of denigrating immorality and social values. Goya against priest Lorenz, who has secretly influenced the decisions of the Inquisition, will give Inés a great battle for his forgiveness...
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Production: 2006 – USA, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Director: Milos Forman
Star: Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Blanca Portillo, Randy Quaid
IMDB Score: 6.9
Pollock
The film is about the life story of the American artist Jackson Pollock. The painter Pollock has written his name for art history with works that bring a new dimension to expressionism. In the film, Ed Harris, who also portraying Pollock, is also his directorial debut...
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Production: 2000 - ABD
Genre: Biyografi, Dram
Director: Ed Harris
Star: Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor, Amy Madigan
IMDB Score: 7.0
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Griet, 17, started to work as a maid with Johannes Vermeer for the support of her family and soon attracted the attention of the famous painter. Despite the difference between social position and education, Vermeer recognizes his interest in Griet's paintings. Vermeer's wife Catharina and her eldest daughter Cornelia start to get jealous of Griet, who is fascinated by the mysterious and passionate world of the painter. When Vermeer's mother-in-law Maria sees Griet's inspiration to Vermeer, she allows her secret relationships to thrive for her own interests. Van Rujiven, the protector of Vermeer, wanted to benefit from this relationship. Crafty Rujiven orders Vermeer a portrait of Griet. In the end, one of the most excellent paintings ever created, but at what cost?
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Production: 2003 - UK, Luxembourg, USA, France
Genre: Biographical, Romantic, Drama
Director: Peter Webber
Star: Colin Firth, Judy Parfitt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson
IMDB Score: 7.0
Big Eyes
The film is about the life of American painter Margaret Keane, who is known for the paintings of her own big-eyed child in the 1950s. Biographical adaptation of Margaret Keane and her husband, Walter Keane, about the tension in power. Walter Keane, who owned his wife's talent and original works on behalf of the "sales strategy", caught up with the money and the fame. He leaves Margaret in the overshadowing. Even for one of her paintings, Margaret cannot say ıs "My painting", she will give a tough fight against her husband's repression. The film is considered to be Tim Burton's most personal film after "Ed Wood". The movie leading actor starring Amy Adams and Christopher Waltz. The script belongs to Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. It's Danny Elfman in the soundtrack.
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Production: 2014 - USA
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Tim Burton
Star: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Terence Stamp, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston
IMDB Score: 7.0
Vincent & Theo
Focusing on only a certain part of Vincent van Gogh's tragic life, the film chooses to look at van Gogh's life and art, especially through his relationship with his brother Theodore. Theodore, showing all the help that his brother can do to work, has become a must for Vincent's life. The film, which contains many beautiful squares about the places where the artist draws his paintings, is one of the acclaimed works of master director Robert Altman...
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Production: 1990 – France, Netherlands, England, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Robert Altman
Star: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Johanna ter Steege
IMDB Score: 7.1
Van Gogh
The famous painter Van Gogh visited the village doctor in the village where he arrived during the train ride. The village doctor, Doctor Gachet, who is a person of great importance to art, invites Van Gogh to honor his house. When Van Gogh accepts, unusual developments begin to happen. Van Gogh uses the beautiful girl of the doctor as a model and starts a relationship between them over time. But this is not the only problem of the famous artist. His personal life is extremely turbulent and problematic. Directed by Maurice Pialat, the film focuses on the last three months of the famous painter Van Gogh's life...
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Production: 1991 - France
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Maurice Pialat
Star: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
IMDB Score: 7.3
Lust For Life
The film, which depicts the depressed life of the Dutch great painter Vincent Van Gogh, who is considered to be the founder of the Impressionist Impressionist movement, and his relationship with his friend Gauguin, was among the most successful biographical films by many critics. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn shared the leading roles in "Lust for Life". This film won Anthony Quinn the award for the best supporting actor...
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Production: 1956 - USA
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Vincente Minelli
Star: Anthony Quinn, Kirk Douglas, Pamela Brown, James Donald, Jill Bennett
IMDB Score: 7.4
Frida
The film tells the story of Frida Kahlo, one of the extraordinary figures in the history of art. The film, based on her relationship with her husband Diego Rivera, presents Kahlo's portrait of a political artist and sexual libertarian. Adapted by Julie Taymor from Hayden Herrera's book of Kahlo's life story...
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Production: 2002 - USA, Canada, Mexico
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Julie Taymor
Star: Edward Norton, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Geoffrey Rush, Alfred Molina
IMDB Score: 7.4
Séraphine
A film about the tragic life story of Painter Séraphine Luise, directed by Martin Provost. She was 41 years old in 1905. She had a simple life. She was making his life as a cleaning worker. Séraphine's guardian angel told him to paint. She listens to her and starts painting on her own. She spent all the money he earned to paint. She was working during the day and creates bright, colorful, naive nature patterns throughout the night...
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Production: 2008 - France, Belgium
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Director: Martin Provost
Star: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Adélaïde Leroux, Geneviève Mnich, Serge Larivière
IMDB Score: 7.4
Modigliani
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne...
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Production: 2004 - USA, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Romania
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Director: Mick Davis
Star: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Miriam Margolyes, Susie Amy, Omid Djalili
IMDB Puanı: 7.4
Loving Vincent
The animated film, directed by Polish painter and director Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, deals with the life and mysterious death of the famous painter Vincent van Gogh, known for his paintings such as "Sunflowers", "Starry Night" and "Terrace Café". The film is made up of more than 120 best paintings by Vincent van Gogh and the characters are told in the paint. The subject of the film is based on 800 letters written by the painter himself...
Fragman:
Production: 2017 - UK
Genre: Animation, Biography, Crime, Drama
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Star: Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Helen McCrory, Eleanor Tomlinson, Douglas Booth, Chris O'Dowd, Jerome Flynn, Holly Earl, John Sessions, James Greene, Robert Gulaczyk, Bill Thomas, Richard Banks, Josh Burdett, Martin Herdman
IMDB Score: 7.8
Gauguin - Voyage de Tahiti
French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an innovator of modern art, known for experimenting with bold color and distorted proportions, along with his contemporaries Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. By 1891, Gauguin was already well-known in artistic circles but had grown tired of the civilized world and its political and moral conventions. Leaving his wife and children behind, he ventures alone to Tahiti, consumed with a yearning for new inspiration. Pushing deep into the Tahitian jungle, Gauguin meets Tehura, his muse, who will consume his mind and inspire his most iconic works of art.
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Production: 2017 - France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Director: Edouard Deluc
Star: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi
IMDB Score: 5.9
At Eternity's Gate
"At Eternity Gate" is a film about Vincent van Gogh's last time in Arles. In the film, the life of the famous painter, Van Gogh is portrayed by William Dafoe. Julian Schnabel is the director of the film, which describes the unknowns of Van Gogh's life. He co-wrote the screenplay with director Schnabel and Jean-Claude Carrière. The film's cast includes Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelsen...
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Production: 2018 - Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Julian Schnabel
Star: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac
IMDB Score: 6.8
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