Comments on: 10 Movies About Artists to Add to Your Queue (and 2 You Should Skip)

By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:50:39 +0000

In reply to Suzanne Stryk.

Another one that’s new. Thanks, Suzanne.

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By: Suzanne Stryk

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:44:29 +0000

In my book, this is a great film about an artist:
Goya in Bordeaux

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By: Odd Pritchett

Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:45 +0000

Artists that I would like to see films around: [no particular order] Michelangelo Caravaggio (he led a tumultuous life/an exiled murderer of sorts); Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta (Andre was charged with second degree murder when his wife fell from their apartment in New York causing a firestorm of controversy for the iconic Minimalist); Claude Monet (just because he lived through many changes in the art world and remained brilliant each step of the way); and Richard Serra (workers suffered {at least one died} for his art and it didn’t detour him from his vision)

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By: Curtis David Sackett

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:34:45 +0000

In reply to Alyson Stanfield.

I too didn’t fall for Surviving Picasso. It steps into the cliche that artists are misogynistic philanthrop. I think the movie might have taken on too much and ended up confusing as to who/what it was about. In the film Picasso was getting older and clinging to his youth and freedom, that maybe can’t survive in old age? He thought a younger woman would help, but he never wanted to commit, and ended up damaging her. Does this story sound familiar?

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:21:16 +0000

In reply to Curtis David Sackett.

Ooo. I definitely want to see Fur.
And thanks for the mention of the 1 scene from Surviving Picasso. I really disliked that movie when I saw it in the theater but that was so long ago.

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By: Curtis David Sackett

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:29:18 +0000

Great list here. I see no mention of Factory Girl, I guess it’s more about a muse. Fur: An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus is another weird one about becoming an artist and breaking away from the norm.
An inspirational scene from Surviving Picasso was the opening when Picasso shows a collector a stash of canvases. Many canvases just stuffed in a holding cell. It told me that you should always be making more and more art and building a pile of work. Always be creating.
Thanks for the list.

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By: Prefab77 Street art

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:31:02 +0000

Wheres the best place to get these films in the UK?

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:38:58 +0000

In reply to Laurie McCarriar.

Is that Leonora Carrington?

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:38:18 +0000

In reply to Rebecca Collins.

Thanks for these, Rebecca. The last two sound like documentaries and I’ll add them to that list. I have seen “In a dream.”
El Anatsui is speaking in Denver in the fall. Really looking forward to it!

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By: Rebecca Collins

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:39:25 +0000

Fur is fantastic , and here a few others…
“waiting for David Hockney”
very weird and wonderful: “Marwencol”
“In a dream” about mosaic artist Issaiah Zagar
“Fold Crumple Crush” about El Anatsui

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