In the spirit of The Diary, we put together a list of our favourite movies about artists. From a documentary about the legendary Peggy Guggenheim to a fictional telling of the story behind Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, we hope you’ll find something to intrigue, enlighten, and entertain. We wish you happy watching!
- Le Mystère Picasso (1956) – Henri-Georges Clouzot
- The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965) – Carol Reed
- Andrei Rublev (1966) – Andrei Tarkovsky
- Edvard Munch (1974) – Peter Watkins
- Caravaggio (1986) – Derek Jarman
- Camille Claudel (1988) – Bruno Nuytten
- My Left Foot (1989) – Jim Sheridan
- Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) – John Maybury
- Basquiat (1996) – Julian Schnabel
- Pollock (2000) – Ed Harris
- Frida (2002) – Julie Taymor
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) – Peter Webber
- Séraphine (2008) – Martin Provost
- Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008) – Paul Hasegawa-Overacker, Tom Donahue
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) – Banksy
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) – Tamra Davis
- Gerhard Richter: Painting (2012) – Corinna Belz
- Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present (2012) – Matthew Akers
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) – Alison Klayman
- Renoir (2012) – Gilles Bourdos
- Finding Vivian Maier (2013) – John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
- Tim’s Vermeer (2013) – Teller
- Turner (2014) – Mike Leigh
- Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015) – Lisa Immordino Vreeland
- Final Portrait (2017) – Stanley Tucci
- Loving Vincent (2017) – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
- At Eternity’s Gate (2018) – Julian Schnabel
- Never Look Away (2018) – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible (2020) – Matthew Taylor
- Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (2020) – Halina Dyrschka
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598–1599
