The Madonna of the Slums (1919)

1964년 파리, 천재 조각가이자 화가인 ‘알베르토 자코메티’는 그의 오랜 친구이자 작가인 ‘제임스 로드’에게 모델이 되어 달라고 부탁한다. 완벽함을 추구하는 자코메티로 인해 드로잉은 수정을 반복하고 제임스는 고국으로 가는 비행기 스케줄을 변경하며 끈기 있게 작업을 도와준다. 그의 인내심이 바닥날 무렵, 자코메티는 진행 중인 드로잉을 보여주는데…

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.

오스트리아 빈 근교의 툴른에서 태어난 에곤 쉴레는 유복한 가정에서 태어났지만, 매독에 걸린 아버지의 광기로 인해 어린 시절 큰 상처를 받은 인물로 기록되고 있다. 매독에 걸린 아버지가 모든 집안 소유물을 아궁이에 던져 태워버린 것, 어머니의 무관심 등은 에곤 쉴레가 짧은 일평생 동안 여동생 게르티 쉴레에 집착하고 자신을 예술에만 몰아치게 한 원동력을 만든 트라우마로 분석되고 있다.두 살 때부터 무엇인가를 그리기 시작했고 어려서부터 그림에 천부적인 재능을 보였던 에곤 쉴레는 정식으로 미술 교육을 받지 않았지만, 명문인 빈 예술 아카데미에 최연소로 입학 허가를 받으며 천재성을 인정받는다. 하지만 아카데미의 보수적인 학풍에 반대해 학교를 그만두고 ‘신예술가 그룹’을 결성하며 자신만의 독특한 화풍을 발전시키며 작품 활동을 펼쳐 나간다.특히 당대 최고의 화가 구스타프 클림트는 에곤 쉴레의 재능을 아끼면서도 질투했는데, 서로 그림을 교환할 때마다 그가 매번 ‘왜 그림을 교환하려 하지? 네 그림이 훨씬 나은데?’라고 한 것은 유명한 일화. 구스타프 클림트와 에곤 쉴레는 서로에게 자극과 영감을 받는 사이였고 구스타프 클림트는 그의 가장 친한 친구이자 조력자 역할을 했다. 도발적이고 과격한 터치로 적나라하게 인체를 표현, 금기를 깨고 죽음과 에로티시즘이 결합된 충격적이고 매혹적인 작품들을 남긴 에곤 쉴레는 28세라는 젊은 나이에 스페인 독감으로 아내와 뱃속의 아이를 잃고 자신도 짧은 생을 마감한다.

In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

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, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfolded and he painted it. In the process he created a whole new kind of art. The programme examines nine key Turner paintings and shows how we should re-think them in the light of the scientific and Industrial Revolution. Includes interviews with historian Simon Schama and artist Tracey Emin.

July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his home, a sinister place where his friend's macabre paintings seem to threaten him from the walls in shadows.

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.

Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist’s output in the years before his death in 1973. The story is of a creative spirit finding new impetus in response to both death’s approach and the censure of contemporaries and critics. Those who were members of Picasso’s private inner circle – gossip about his lifestyle also helped to fire him back up – put the later work forward as some of his frankest, wittiest and most profound.

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) becomes fascinated by the young generation of Spanish abstract artists, so he begins to collect their works to show them to the public in Toledo. Until Gustavo Torner, a young forest engineer interested in art, proposes him to visit his city, Cuenca.

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract art. At the core of this film is a dramatic recreation of Kandinsky's account of returning to his studio one dark evening, and being astonished by an unknown masterpiece of abstract art leaning against the easel - a picture which turned out to be one of his own landscapes fallen on its side. 'Now I knew for certain that the object spoiled my pictures.' While this film's narration does indeed emphasize the notion of an inspired breakthrough to Abstraction, the picture it conveys in more purely filmic ways is a rich and complex one.

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the experience of being his partner.

Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, her lover between 1935 and 1943, with whom she maintained a chaotic, even violent, relationship. Fortunately, she survived Picasso's abusive behavior and its sequels to find a new path, the best one, the one that is worth to be told, in spite of Picasso.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the “primitive” in art is problematic?

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

The mysterious parallel story of Italian painters Andrea Mantegna (ca. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1435-1516), brothers-in-law, public rivals and masters of the early Renaissance.

Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.

A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of great painters and sculptors who created astonishing pieces of art: el Siglo de Oro.

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar point of view and the critic voices of the women who defined the paramount milestones of his existence: Gerti, his sister; Wally, his main model and lover; and Edith, his wife. A brief story of love, hate, betrayal and misfortune.

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.