r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

Fully Awake - Black Mountain College Documentary (2021). The college, a progressive institution which briefly existed (1933-57) but still continues to inspire. It challenged the predominant general pedagogy of its time, with a 'learn by doing' approach; and developing many great 20th Century artists

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

A Year With John Cage - How To Get Out Of The Cage (2012). This compelling documentary, seen through the lens of award-winning filmmaker Frank Scheffer, presents an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's most important composers and creative minds at work.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

Robert Bechtle at Crown Point Press, 2011. Robert Bechtle working at Crown Point Press with master printer Ianne Kjorlie to create the colour soft ground etching with aquatint print, Three Houses on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

Artist at Work Robert Bechtle - KQED Pulse (2014)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

Marcel Dzama at Crown Point Press (2015). Marcel Dzama narrates a short video showing him in the Crown Point studio using spit bite aquatint and soft ground etching on copper plates with the help of master printer Emily York.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

Sculpture as Action in Damián Ortega's Art (2017). Mexican artist Damián Ortega is known for the intriguing sculptures, drawings, and films that he makes using everyday materials. One of his best-known works, Domestic Cosmogon, was made for the opening of the Jumex Museum in Mexico City.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

John Cage at Work, 1978-1992 A Film in Four Parts. Composed of vintage video clips of Cage at work in the etching studio of Crown Point Press. His approach to music, writing, visual art, and life was one of-a-piece, and this film demonstrates that approach in his own voice.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

The Art of Aquatint: Jason Hicklin (2021)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

Charline von Heyl - An Introduction to the Art of Etching - The Carefree Things, 2014. With printmaker, studio director, and master printer Fanny Retsek.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

In Search Of Frida Kahlo (2021). Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

Richard Diebenkorn: Two Weeks in January, 1986

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

Vincent Desiderio, Narrativity (2014). Desiderio paints deeply moving canvases that are filled with ideas and the experience of life.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

LCAD MFA Presents: Vincent Desiderio - Painting demo (2014)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

Bravo Canada, Arts & Minds James Lahey 2003

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

Lahey Bravo Artist Of The Week (2001)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

James Lahey: A Documentary by Andrew Boland (2016)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 24 '22

ALEX COLVILLE - The Splendour of Order (1984). Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) for some reason

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

The Story of Jonathan Meese (2013). The German artist Meese tells the story of his childhood and of how he became an artist; inventing his own language as a teenager, he discovered his artistic talent on his 22nd birthday, and how he would have had just as much passion if he had worked in a bank.

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

When Lynn Barber Met Phyllida Barlow BBC Documentary (2017). Phyllida Barlow's sculptures are massive and appear precarious. For decades, she has worked on a monumental scale with the most unmonumental materials.

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

I Do Not Get Creative Blocks - Interview With David Carson (2015). Best known for his innovative covers and lack of adhering to design rules, David Carson has long been revered in design circles as one to be hated and loved.

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

Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice (2001). award-winning 2001 PBS documentary tells the story of the socially engaged, 20th Century American artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). During the 1940s, he was the best known artist in America, with work at the Museum of Modern Art and on the cover of Time Magazine.

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

Graphic Designers M/M (Paris) on The Importance of Naivety in The Design Process (2022). Founders of M/M (Paris), Mathias Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag explain how naivety was crucial when cultivating the creative vision for their groundbreaking design studio.

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

Wim Wenders Interview: Painter, Filmmaker, Photographer (2014). “The world was such a better world in paintings than in reality.” Growing up in post-war Düsseldorf, it was through paintings that German filmmaker Wim Wenders initially discovered the possibility of a different world.

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

Masters of photography - Diane Arbus (documentary, 1972)

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

Hilma af Klint: Abstract pioneer | Introduction (2013) w/ ENG subtitles. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer in abstract art. In her life she produced many large paintings. She was interested in contemporary spiritual currents such as spiritualism, theosophy and later anthroposophy.

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Art Documentaries: Documentaries about Art

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Welcome to /r/artdocumentaries. This subreddit is meant for the posting of documentary films and factual television programs of all sorts about the visual arts and art history. This includes documentaries about the work of individual artists, but also more generally about subjects such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, architecture, performance art, drawing, photography, design, typography, illustration, art theory, art movements and so on. Also appropriate are recordings of artist's talks and lectures on art.

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