1)- MODIGLIANI (2004)
The film, which is about Amedeo Modigliani, a sad and sundowner artist with his tragic life, featured many artists from Picasso to Utrillo.
2)- THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965)
It is about the conflicts between Pope Julius II and Michelangelo, one of the most famous painters of the Renaissance period, during the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
3)- BASQUIAT (1996)
The director of the film, which is about the life of the graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in 1960, is Julian Schnabel, who is also the artist’s close friend.
4)- BIG EYES (2014)
The film, directed by Tim Burton, focuses on the artistic career and life of painter Margaret Keane, who was known quite late because her paintings were marketed with her husband’s signature.
5)- LUST FOR LIFE (1956)
The film, which shows how the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh combined his creative genius with a mysterious mental illness, was adapted from Irving Stone’s book.
6)- POLLOCK (2000)
Directed by Ed Harris, the film tells about Jackson Pollock, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, unusual techniques of his and his struggle of life. Harris also played Pollock in the movie.
7)- MY LEFT FOOT (1989)
It is a movie adapted from the book of Irish painter Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and can only use his left foot. It was directed by Jim Sheridan.
8)- MR. TURNER (2014)
The film is about the life of British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, who is regarded as one of the leading artists of Romanticism and Impressionism.
9)- ANDREI RUBLEV (1966)
The main theme of the film, which tells the life of Andrei Rublev, who is both a monk and an icon painter, is artistic freedom, religion, political uncertainty, autodidacticism and making art under a repressive regime.
10)- KLIMT (2006)
Much of the film, which depicts the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, focuses on Klimt’s relationship with dancer Lea de Castro.
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