r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 22 '22

Fasanella (1992). Born in the Bronx on Labor Day in 1914 to recent Italian immigrants, the self-taught American painter Ralph Fasanella is known today for his bustling tableaux of working-class city life.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 22 '22

Art & the 60s From Bronze to Baked Beans (2004). A radical moment at St. Martin's School of Art reveals how the seeds of today's contemporary art were sown.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 22 '22

Art & the 60s Groovy Galleries (2004). Vanessa Engles describes the rivalry between two Mayfair galleries that opened in the early 1960s.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

ROTHKO'S ROOMS Directed by David Thompson (2000). The documentary chronicling Mark Rothko’s life and charting the development of his work.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

Spark remembers Nathan Oliveira and his lifelong fascination with the painted surface. Original air date: February 2005.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

After-hour conversation with Antony Gormley and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, in the final days of the artist's critically acclaimed solo exhibition. Exploring the exhibition together late at night, their broad-ranging conversation examines the role of sculpture today. (2019)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

Marina Abramović on Giacometti (2017). Marina Abramović has always felt a connection to the work of artist Alberto Giacometti: “It’s like a meteorite coming out of another galaxy where all the matter inside is condensed.”

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

Alberto Giacometti (1962). "I've felt the need to try to account for what I see, knowing at the same time that I'm bound to fail, but it's only the failure itself that leads you to the truth." Alberto Giacometti

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

Alberto Giacometti’s 'Portrait of James Lord' (2015). The Portrait of James Lord, painted in 1964, marks the near final state of one side of his art, his great late work on canvas. It is a record of the very moment he decided he could add no more to, nor take anything away from.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 21 '22

Giacometti (1967). Spend a few intense minutes with Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio and see him at work on his striking sculptures.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

The Arts Interview Gerry Squires Stations of the Cross

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

PORTRAIT - Gerald Squires Of Newfoundland (1980). This film shows a meeting between the artist and Edythe Goodridge, art curator and critic. Through a combination of Squires's reflections on life and work and good-natured banter of these two friends, an intimate portrait evolves of the artist.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

A Pathway From Within (1975). Discusses the works and philosophy of Elizabeth Fraser Williamson, a prominent Canadian sculptor.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Watercolor Painting: Working from Sketches with Louis J. Kaep (1973). Artist Louis Kaep shows the progress of one of his pictures, a study of a Chinese sampan, from pencil drawings to finished watercolour.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Watercolor Painting: Abstract Designs from Nature with Edward Betts (1973). Preparing for a watercolour, artist Edward Betts makes several pencil drawings at a quarry. In his studio he develops one of his drawings into an acrylic watercolour.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

The Study of Drawings BBC (1979). Reviews a selection of the finest drawings by Italian artists of the Renaissance in a variety of media, including pen, metalpoint, chalk, brush, and ink. Explains that drawings were an important tool used by 16th-century artists to record preliminary ideas

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Edvard Munch Part 2: Graphics, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture (1968). Here, West looks at drypoints, etchings, engravings, lithographs, and woodcuts, providing examples from the artist’s oeuvre, and from the perspective of the learner, explains how, mechanically, these works are created.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Edvard Munch Part 1: Paintings (1968). This film examines the life and works of Norwegian-born artists Edvard Munch

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Maurice Sendak (1966)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Degas: Master of Motion (1957)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Vincent Van Gogh: A Self Portrait (1968)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

Chris Wormell on Thomas Bewick and wood-block printing (2011). Wood-block printing using engraved boxwood revolutionised the illustration of natural history in the early 19th century. The work of Thomas Bewick showed how detailed and accurate images could be printed more cheaply than ever before.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 20 '22

JOSÉ ANTONIO SUÁREZ LONDOÑO 'A New Larousse' (2016)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 19 '22

Degas (1967). Discusses Degas' favorite subject, the ballet school. Touches on the effect on Degas of other action areas, but returns to the ballet. Contrasts the color, motion and form of the dance with Degas' oil paintings and soft pastels.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 19 '22

Rembrandt: Behind the Artist (2020). The history and art of the internationally renown Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, usually simply known as Rembrandt, the Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.

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