Katie Did It (1950)

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which Tjipto’s brush strokes give birth to his paintings.

Luke Lorenz is an artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.

Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F. Mitterrand, Carolina de Mónaco, Juan Carlos I, Rigoberta Menchu) paints his self-portrait, while he tells us the foundations of his art.

A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his past.

A painter in the throes of a creative block finds inspiration thanks to a fascinating and mysterious gallery owner, but he can't expect the shocking consequences of their encounter.

Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break auction records. But who was she? The ARTE documentary by Grimme Prize-winning author Sylvie Kürsten ventures a self-portrait of Lempicka, narrated and played by Nicole Heesters.

With his vivid oil paintings, Albert Anker captured Swiss folk life like no other. Together with musician Endo Anaconda we discover the «Anker-House», Anker's old studio.

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his innovative way of conceiving space. Donatello is already a legend in his own lifetime. The sculptor is the forefather of the High Renaissance and pioneer for artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. His bronze sculpture of the "David" or the "Pazzi Madonna" in marble are icons of art history and testify to his sculptural power of renewal.

Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and loneliness most people probably know, even if they have no idea who created it.

When given the rare opportunity to capture images of an enigmatic famous painter, a photographer is forced to confront the limits she will go for her art.

Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.

프랑스 앙뉘에서 발간되는 미국 잡지 프렌치 디스패치의 편집장 아서 하위처 주니어(빌 머리)가 갑자기 사망한다. 발행인의 부고는 곧잡지의 부고이기도 해서, 프렌디 디스패치의 최정예 저널리스트들은 마지막 발행본에 실을 특종 기사를 고민한다. 허브세인트 새저랙 (오언 윌슨), J. K. L. 베렌슨(틸다 스윈튼), 루신다 크레멘츠(프랜시스 맥도먼드), 로벅 라이트(제프리 라이트)는 각자 도시와 예술, 정치와 푸드 섹션을 맡아 피날레를 장식할 호의 기사를 쓴다. 살인죄로 수감된 천재 화가의 작품은 영악한 미술상에 의해 그 가치가 엄청나게 뛰게 되고, 기성세대에 저항하는 프랑스 청년들의 변혁 운동은 기성세대가 선언문을 고쳐준다는 아이러니를 마주하고, 해외파 기자는 프랑스의 외국인 노동자 셰프의 감정을 이해한다.

The relationship between a painter and his admirer unfolds as an abstract, twist-filled hide-and-seek game against the backdrop of murder and revenge.

Portrait of the painter Manuel Moldes, from Pontevedra, Spain, about the work he does in the preparation of a retrospective of his work.

1770년, 젊은 화가 마리안느는 밀라노 귀족과 결혼을 앞둔 여인 엘로이즈의 초상화를 그려달라는 백작 부인의 의뢰를 받고 엘로이즈가 머무는 외딴섬의 영지에서 며칠간 머물게 된다. 마리안느는 엘로이즈가 초상화 그리는 걸 싫어한다는 이유 때문에 화가라는 신분을 숨기고 접근한다. 마리안느는 엘로이즈의 이목구비를 눈에 담기 위해 매일 산책에 동행하면서 그녀가 지닌 아픔을 어루만져주고 친분도 쌓는다. 어쨌든 그녀는 엘로이즈의 결혼을 종용하는 도구로 사용될 초상화 완성에 매진해야 한다.

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