Recently, the epidemic has struck again in many places, resulting in many people having to work from home or isolate at home, this article will be some niche films about the biography of artists, so that everyone can also get the nourishment of art in the days when they stay at home.
Film information synthesized from: Douban Movie
01
Bordeaux Desire Paradise
Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
The elderly Goya was politically exiled to France.
At the end of his life, he recalled the creative passion of his youth.
Especially the fiery love affair with the Duchess of Alba, the struggle in the Spanish court, the pain of deafness at the age of 46.
So he lived in Bordeaux with his last mistress and spent the last years of his life in the creation.
In his youth, he was ambitious and interceded with charles IV's high-ranking officials and nobles, making him a famous court painter;
Life is too promiscuous skeleton, although lucky to escape the threat of death but left deaf lifelong disability;
A love affair with the charming Duchess of Alba ended unraveled, and the Duchess fell prey to a political struggle over a court plot.
Goya had lost the only woman he had ever loved in his life, and was tired of the court game of chasing money and power.
His painting style thus turned gloomy and heavy, and his works began to focus on the expression of life's suffering.
After experiencing the French invasion of Spain, he created a series of legendary names that reflected the brutal scenes of war as he left an immortal reputation.
The film recreates the life trajectory and spiritual journey of Goya, a painter of a generation who opened up the modern painting style, and recalls the European painting world and court interests and artistic explorations of that era.
However, only rational fantasy is the mother of art and the source of miracles.
02
Edward Munch
Edvard Munch (1974)
Munch's most famous work, The Scream (Norwegian Skrik), written in 1893, is seen as a symbol of the extreme suffering of post-industrial modernization.
The strong spirit and emotion of his paintings, and the intense, appealing treatment of psychological distress, had a major influence on the growth of German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
This biographical film follows roughly the chronological sequence from 1884 to 1894, and looks back at Munch's progression to becoming the most controversial and defamatory painter in northern Europe.
The film also goes back to when he was five years old, when his mother died of lung disease, the death of his sister, and his own near death from lung disease at the age of 13.
There was also his brief love affair and some of the political activities he was involved in in the Norwegian capital and Berlin, Germany.
The combination of prose narrative and painting conveys the melancholy, sorrow, love and pain in Munch's paintings to the audience.
03
Modigliani
Modigliani (2004)
Modigliani struggled with Picasso all his life, and his artworks not only failed to be recognized by the public like Picasso, but his poor habits also infected him with tuberculosis that was difficult to cure.
The film recounts his unruly wandering among the painters of Montmartre in Paris, living a life of debauchery filled with alcohol, marijuana and women.
In a sketching class, he meets jelly, the love of his life.
He invited her to be his model and created numerous portraits for Jenny.
But in a work ready to compete with Picasso at an exhibition, he left Jenny's eyes unpainted.
He explained to Jenny, "I will draw your eyes when I understand your inner soul." "He draws inspiration from Jenny and keeps him passionate.
There are many memorable scenes in the film, which vividly present Modigliani's dramatic life.
04
Dalí & Me: The Story of Surrealism
Dali & I:The Surreal Story (2014)
A dealer who specialized in Dalí's work for ten years, Dalí's only neighbor in his later years revealed the secret:
In his later years, Dalí hired people to produce a large number of fakes, 75% of his life's works were forgeries, and artists and art dealers made a fortune... Completely subvert your knowledge and imagination of the art market!
The art market is like a circus arena where hope and fraud coexist.
The film depicts an exhaustive portrait of Dalí, the bearded "foreman" who is bizarre and ingenious, commanding and charismatic.
In this truthless investment war, the whole world is caught up in Dalí's scam...
05
Night Watch
Nightwatching (2007)
The film reviews Rembrandt's romance and career and highlights the creative process of his masterpiece Night Watch.
Rembrandt has always been a portrait painter of high society, he has successive orders, full of sweet love.
It was not until his wife died shortly after giving birth to his young son in 1642 that life began to take a big turn.
This was followed by being sued by his employer for Night Watch, causing Rembrandt to suffer one of the most significant setbacks in his career.
After that, his career began to decline, and he began to fall into debt.
The vicissitudes of the world, the warmth and coldness of human feelings...
"For me, the picture is the life of the movie."
Director Greenaway, the "visual madman", once again emphasized the importance of "picture" to the film through this film.
The strong sense of stage in "Night Watch", many actors' clothing and dress can be found in Rembrandt's paintings, which is intimate and gives people a feeling of being in a different world.
Everything is between abstraction and reality, restoring a social pressure, art criticism, and still "optimistic" Rembrandt when he is close to blindness.
06
Caravaggio
Caravaggio (1986)
In the most passionate way, he passionately tells caravaggio's ambiguous and uninhibited life.
In 1600, the turbulent times were affecting the field of art, and it was also the era when Caravaggio, the representative of the Baroque painting style, grew up.
However, his violent personality made his painting path from his hometown to Rome always bumpy and difficult.
He was a blasphemous killer, a stunted hybrid, an irritable and cruel alcoholic, an old patron of brothels and taverns, but he excelled in swordsmanship and dared to rebel against tradition.
At the same time, he was a cunning opportunist who was not afraid to use wealth and aristocratic authority to achieve his ends.
But he possessed vast theological knowledge, was keen on the discussion of the Holy Spirit, and was always on the side of the poor people, widely loved by the poor and the underclass of society.
He dedicated his life to truth and justice, and his paintings and lives were filled with reason and irrationality, holiness and sin, love and violence, creation and destruction, life and death.
As the central spirit of the film also runs tightly around these elements.
Caravaggio excelled at dealing with delicate changes of light and shadow, just as his short life was filled with strong contrasts between light and darkness...
07
Rose Life
La Mme (2007)
It tells the story of the legendary Life of Edette Piaf, a French national treasure singer known as the "Little Lark".
Her childhood was turbulent, first abandoned by her mother, and then sent by her father to a brothel to be raised by her grandmother.
Later, after his father retired from the army, he was forcibly taken away to live with the circus. After that, Piaf followed her father to sell art for a living, and the street first cried to become a girl selling in a bar.
Until one day, The official debut of Piaf successfully became a charming star with a singing voice, singing many popular songs.
In the middle of two world wars, her magical voice and unique stage performances conquered Paris and the whole of France.
In 1947, Piaf came to the United States to give concerts.
It didn't go well at first, but after hard work, she also had great success in the United States, becoming lifelong friends with movie star Marlene Dietrich.
She once fell in love with boxing champion Marcel Sandan, but her relationship was repeatedly frustrated. When happiness came, bad luck also came, and in 1949, Sandan died in an air crash.
Sandan's departure hit Piaf so hard that she felt that the people she loved were always taken away by fate.
For a long time, she couldn't accept the fact that Sandan had left.
Finally the singing gave her strength, and she fought again and returned to the stage. But life was brutal, and she suffered two traffic accidents in just a few months.
During the arduous course of treatment, she became addicted to drugs and alcohol.
She deteriorated in her later years and eventually died of liver cancer. Piaf's funeral took place in Paris, and tens of thousands of people spontaneously followed her on foot to the Lachaise Cemetery where she was buried.
To this day, her tomb is still decorated with flowers from worshippers every day...
08
Frieda
Frida (2002)
Frida, a famous Mexican female painter, was a happy and lively girl before the age of 18, enjoying the sweetness of love like everyone else.
However, the 18-year-old car accident caused her to suffer a serious injury, and she escaped death and has been accompanied by illness for the rest of her life.
The original little lover also left her. Lying in her hospital bed for 18 months, she spent all day with her paintings, which were filled with incredible vitality and passion.
At that time, she also really began to consider selling paintings to support herself, and she went to ask the painter Rivera to guide her paintings, and the other party admired her talent.
They also transformed from teachers and students into lifelong partners, and they got married.
After marriage they experienced the most turbulent revolutionary period in Mexico, and they enthusiastically followed in the footsteps of communism.
Even when Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union by Stalin, they received him warmly without fear of risk.
Frida's hazy love affair with Trotsky, and her lesbian complex, made her emotional history as brilliant.
In 1954, Frida left a world full of sickness.
I hope it is a blessing to be gone.
09
Van Gogh and Theo
Vincent & Theo (1990)
At the auction, the list price of Van Gogh's famous "Sunflower" gradually increased, and finally fixed on an astronomical number.
When the world is passionately pursuing Van Gogh's art, who would have thought of the name Theo? The film tells the story between Van Gogh and his younger brother Theo.
Van Gogh was trapped by poverty all his life, and in order to insist on his art, van Gogh had to rely on the relief of his younger brother Theo.
In Van Gogh's view, he could only dedicate himself to canvas and color, and other life troubles should be solved by his brother, because he gave all his works to Theo.
Theo loved and respected his brother's art, and although he was not very wealthy, he was willing to support him.
Every time Van Gogh encountered financial problems, even emotional problems, he would give selfless help in time. It can be said that without Theo, there would be no Van Gogh.
Van Gogh had only sold one painting during his lifetime, and he died of madness about painting and guilt toward Theo.
After Van Gogh committed suicide, the sad and desperate Theo soon died.
In fact, neither brother had the opportunity to enjoy the achievements of the sky-high Van Gogh art, and could only be left to the world to praise...
10
I'm with Cézanne
Cézanne and I (2016)
True feelings on the canvas are far higher than reality, and the clock without hands can only be "once great". This moment depicts the famous rupture between the French literary giant Emile Zola and the Impressionist painter Cézanne.
In the picturesque countryside of Provence, the young Zola and Cézanne admired and inspired each other, explored the true meaning of art together, and forged a deep friendship.
Zola used the lives of his friends as inspiration for his own writing, while Cézanne used his talents to create art.
One draws on one gives, one expounds one creates.
But as the two men moved closer to their ideals in their respective fields of art, the realist Zola and the romantic Cézanne were ultimately unable to continue to understand each other.
Their friendship also came to an end.
The director delicately shows the friendship between two legendary men. The use of repetitive details deepens the expression of emotion, and the beauty of Provence melts into the tug-of-war between the two.
Envy that they have knots in their hearts that can never be untied.
The content of this article comes from the public account: Vanity Fair Art
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