Artists in Film Biography: Movies on the best artists

Visual biography of the artist is the subject of a popular movie in the world. Has always been fascinated by the workings of artist filmmakers, especially if it includes a conflict with the conventions of madness and drug addiction, or social. In addition, it gives them the opportunity to portray the original work or a cause for the big screen.Here you can read about some of the most interesting movies on the progress of the Fine Artists.
Lust for Life, directed by Vincent Minelli in 1952

He was Vincent Van Gogh biography has won several minor film. Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas and struggling artist is one of the most important. The film is based on bestsellers and sixty-Irving, who also wrote the agony and the ecstasy of Michelangelo, who also appeared on the silver screen.

If you like the works of Van Gogh, and I enjoy watching another for life, which includes about 200 paintings by Van Gogh original. However, you can if you're familiar with Kirk Douglas filmographic the former, and his vision and tortured Dutch painter takes a little adjustment. Another film on Van Gogh is recommended Robert Altmans Vincent and Theo 1990.

Picasso went live in 1996 by James Ivory

Such as Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, a picture of him a prominent figure outside the artistic circles. While Van Gogh symbolizes self-destructive, manic-depressive artist who knows a success only after his death, Picasso and the artist is an enemy of human beings and a womanizer. Picasso inappropriate relationship with women is central to the film industry and ivory. The story is told from the perspective of Francoise Gilot and Picasso's mistress provides that the work of Picasso's art. Anthony Hopkins with the talent and physical similarities with Picasso, Picasso living allows the creation of the unflattering image of the artist of genius and a severe, self-centered.

Girl with a Pearl Earring directed by Peter Webber, in 2003


Compared to Van Gogh and Picasso, Vermeer biography of less known and less controversial. So a girl with the pearl that is much more self-control and sensitive. The film focuses on a brief period in the life of Vermeer to paint a painting that was a low-grade girl. Although the girl with the pearl does not avoid the conventions of painting more filmic process Vermeer hype, the film worth watching if not for the technical design, reflecting the success in the perception of Vermeer light and color.

Basquiat director Julian Schnabel in 1996

The most common criticism against films that deal with the visual arts is the way to imagine the creative process. Therefore, there were high expectations from Basquiat, which was directed by Julian Schnabel famous painter. Schnabel has done well in the perception of Jean-Michel Basquiat rise and fall of the way the story is less predictable than we've seen a million times before. However, the only reason to watch Basquiat is David Bowie plays the role of Andy Warhol.

A unique approach in 2002 by Julie Taymor

Like most artists who show their life story on the silver screen, the biography of Frida Kahlo is clear, that includes a bus accident, and marriage problems, and an affair with Leon Trotsky. Like Van Gogh and Picasso and Jackson Pollock, who was the subject of a biopic of 2000, Frida Kahlo Code long before been released single, but the 123 minutes of the film did not help on the strength of its position as a feminist idol, and perhaps the most famous woman painter of the 20th century. Only doing its best to integrate the history of the life of Frida Kahlo with her painting, the result is colorful and enjoyable, but still does not stay far enough from the conventions of photography artists on the film.