Movies about painters on netflix
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35 illuminating and timeless documentaries about artists and their work
If you’ve managed to make your way through your entire Netflix watch list and you’re running out of new releases to tune into, fret not. Everyone needs a switch-up in their viewing routine once in a while, so here we’ve compiled a list of 35 illuminating and timeless documentaries set to inspire creatives of all skillsets. With recommendations from across our London office, they’re all focused on the art world in some way, shape or form, capturing processes, life stories and creative output. With so many to choose from, there’s bound to be something to spark some new inspiration in here!
Abstract: The Art of Design (2017-present)
This Netflix documentary series offers a look into the creative minds of influential designers across different fields. Created by former Wired editor Scott Dadich, the first season profiles renowned figures such as Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield and architect Bjarke Ingels, giving insight into their work and personal journeys.
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Movies About Painters You Need to See
In a collection of movies that every year come out from different studios and cinema centers around the world, movies about painters rarely make the top of the box-office charts.
However, these biopics remain go-to sources for art and film aficionados interested in particular names and historical periods. In a selection of movies you will see below some of the most famous film biographies such as Andrei Rublev, Frida, Pollock, Lust for Life about Vincent van Gogh, and Basquiat, The Radiant Child, are missing. Instead, we decided to give space to a combination of older and new films that deserve to be on to-watch lists either for their historical accuracy, marvelous mise-en-scène, brilliant actors in leading roles, or simply for the action and excitement of the stories they are telling us.
Some of them provoked a public outrage, such as Artemisia, in which the storytellers tried to downplay the horrible events from the artist’s life, while others were deemed too didactic to be fully enjoyed, such as The Agony and the Ecstasy. Never
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The 50 Best Music Biopic Movies
(Photo by Searchlight Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN)
The latest: Bob Dylan goes electric in the Timothee Chalamet-starring A Complete Unknown, directed by Walk the Line‘s James Mangold.
Get ready for a Fresh new sound with tonight’s headliner: Rotten Tomatoes’ best music biopics ever!
Music has been a crucial component of the movies since the beginning, back even when they were supposedly ‘silent.’ So naturally we started making movies about those makers of melodies. And actors love playing them: They get to show off an expanded range of talent, and so many musicians’ lives are filled with drama and passion. As the term implies, the biopics on this list are all based on real people across an expanse of styles: rock (A Complete Unknown, Control), country (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Walk the Line), hip-hop (Straight Outta Compton), pop (Selena, Love & Mercy), classical (Amadeus), and beyond. The only exception we made was for 8 Mile: Though the names wer
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