Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010), Blank City (2009), How to Draw a Bunny (2002), Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018), Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020), Painters Painting (1972), Pollock (2000), Savage Messiah (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Art Movement movies.
Storyline: A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, biography, painter, new york, 1980s, rise to fame ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Jarmusch, Debbie Harry and others discuss the No Wave and Cinema of Transgression movements that took place in New York in the late 1970s and early '80s.
Plot Keywords: independent film, documentary, experimental film, 1970s, 1980s, film history, counterculture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The cartoon rabbit that was artist Ray Johnson's signature serves as the inspiration for the title of this documentary that examines the work, life and untimely death of this one-of-a-kind artist. Interviews of fellow contemporary artists like Christo and Billy Name shine a light on the professional work and private life of Johnson, while archival video shows him in his element creating his unique artwork that combined everything from Pop Art images, rubber stamps and collage.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, biography, experimental film, mysterious death, art history, art documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barbara Rubin's twenty-nine-minute experimental film 'Christmas on Earth' caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1963. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city's underground film scene. All the more remarkable that the vision belonged to an 18-year-old girl. A virtual Zelig of the '60s, Barbara Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah and bewitched Allen Ginsberg. The same unbridled creativity that inspired her to make films when women simply didn't, saw her breach yet another male domain, Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at thirty-five years old. Life-long friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that film-maker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avant-garde maverick, a rebel in a man's world, Barbara Rubin regains her rightful place in film history.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, avant-garde, experimental film, 1960s, biography, film history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both historical events and the modernist explosion that blanketed the early 20th century. Art of the Possible isn't simply a biopic; rather, the film shows how Duchamp's ideas changed the public consciousness, and our understanding of aesthetics, art, and culture. The film highlights the singular impact of Duchamp's philosophy on art, and, more importantly, examines how Duchamp's revolutionary ideas from the early 20th century have shaped the 21st century and modern day.
Plot Keywords: artist, documentary, modern art, art history, avant-garde, creativity, art documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Emile de Antonio's documentary about postwar American painting combines footage of museum shows with interviews with the artists themselves. Besides covering Abstract Expressionism in depth, the film discusses other significant 20th-century art movements, such as color-field painting and Pop Art. Some of the artists who discuss their work include Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Barnett Newman and Helen Frankenthaler.
Plot Keywords: art documentary, painting, modern art, creative process, art history, artistic creation, art movement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short.
Plot Keywords: biography, art, painter, usa, 20th century, artist, creativity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, art, artist, france, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christina Clausen gets glimpses into the life of New York iconic figure Keith Haring, from his early years in a small Pennsylvania town through the height of his popularity as a world-renowned artist.
Plot Keywords: art, documentary, new york, 1980s, cultural impact, activism, modern art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, the film unearths the history of land art during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Troublemakers is ultimately a story of renegades and firebrands all willing to risk their future careers on radical change and experimentation-a marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today. Featuring rare interviews with a veritable who's who of American Art of the twentieth century.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, artists, usa, 20th century, nature, environment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1914 twenty year-old Lucia enjoys a bucolic island existence looking after the family's herds of goats. The family's past, with all the positive aspects represented by the often silent mother figure, is concentrated in the house where the sick father is replaced by the brothers who are the bearers of the defense of a tradition that becomes an increasingly heavy dress for Lucia to wear. But when her father dies, her grumpy older brother decides to marry her off to a rich widower, thinking first and foremost about the financial benefits for the family. She joins a nudist colony, despite warnings from the locals that they are "devils". They are a commune of young North Europeans has found on Capri the ideal place to live their alternative life style and practice their art. There she falls under the spell of painter and commune leader Seybu. He teaches her to read and soon she is multi-lingual. But the local doctor Carlo hopes to win her affections and the two men fiercely stating their points in the duel between science and art. This becomes very boring and Lucia soon has enough and wants "to go back to dancing in the woods".—Venice Film Festival
Plot Keywords: history, war, italy, utopia, artists, rural life, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A working relationship between artist Georgia O'Keeffe (Joan Allen) and photographer Alfred Stieglitz (Jeremy Irons) leads to love and marriage.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, art, painter, female lead, romance, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rare archival film footage and interviews illustrate filmmaker Ric Burns' tribute to art-world icon Andy Warhol.
Plot Keywords: documentary, artist, biography, art history, avant-garde, new york, visual arts ...
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