Movies: Painter

The Writer follows a young kid who sneaks out at night to paint graffiti—a quiet, visual story about expression, rebellion, and finding voice through art while navigating a Gotham-like city at night....

In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals were so prolific that they were able to make a living from their talent alone; so much so that, within a prosperous soc...

Archibald, an astronaut painter is on a mission to paint his magnum opus, the solar system. Driven by obsession, he is faced with his final piece, which will guide him to his doom, The Sun....

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When a prestigious art gallery invites Isobel Toussaint, a Haitian-American painter with a neurological disorder, to showcase her work at their Art Basel exhibition, she seizes the chance to pursue her dreams. To claim the life she thought was out of...

While a socially anxious college student is having a hard time finding inspiration for his thesis painting, he meets a stranger in a casual encounter and an unexpected connection grows between them....

A young painter's hopes, fears, and dreams emerge while he struggles to put together his portfolio....

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As her 80th birthday is approaching, Vera Klement, an oil painter in Chicago, adamantly starts yet another new figure painting: a portrait of an artist under oppression, an homage to Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovitch....

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A feature-length documentary celebrating the life and work of Trinity Bay artist and storyteller Clifford George....

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community....

In 2022, an exhibition on the Swiss painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci was planned in a German museum. The museum had reserved a white wall on which the artist was to create a work. Everything was ready, but the pandemic prevented the 88-year-old artis...

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For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many paintings of the theater, music-hall and opera; he loved flowers and even coaxed a garden out of the ...

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I had heard of a Chilean painter, author of a thousand paintings, who had disappeared long ago. I had been given an address on the banks of the Loire, at number 640 of a road that no longer existed. No one had been here for decades. Everything had re...

It is a 1987 independent animated film about a painter struggling to reconcile the vision in his head to the reality on his canvas....