Art History Movies

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar...

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists...

Seven images, each staging their own disappearance.

"Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Helmont, 1650).

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,...

A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different...

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

Some argue that modern graffiti was born in Philadelphia, where the pioneers of wall-writing became citywide celebrities during the late 1960s and...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective.

The passionate story of the femme fatale, seductive and dangerous, a myth and a fantasy, through her representation in art.

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur...

Fajar Suharno was a theater maestro from the 80's to the 90's. He was imprisoned because his theater activities were considered against the New Order...

Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning herself to a creative process that might easily be...

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist