{"id":23763,"date":"2022-11-30T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2022-12-02T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:00:35","slug":"films-about-art-or-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2022\/11\/films-about-art-or-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>FILMS ABOUT ART OR ARTISTS<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Still stuck for a Christmas present for your artists friend, or looking to convince your partner\/friend that all that time you spend in your studio is worth the effort?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might think about giving them a movie rather than a book. Art History tutor, Stewart Roberts has a few suggestions ranging from documentaries to biopics. To kick off his list he suggests three contrasting movies about the same artist, Vincent van Gogh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first is, appropriately enough, an old classic in its own right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lust For Life (1956)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Lust-For-Life.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Lust-For-Life.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Lust-For-Life-768x563.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the novel of the same name by Irving Stone, Kirk Douglas stars as the brilliant artist Vincent van Gogh. showing how he became a painter, his life during the height of his career, and, ultimately, his death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art consumed this Dutch painter, and this movie portrays this fact beautifully with Kirk Douglas\u2019s vaguely New York-sounding Vincent van Gogh as the maladjusted Dutchman who slowly finds and then loses himself in his art. 75 years on, Vincente Minnelli\u2019s opus is still probably the artist biopic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s hammy and paints with a broad brush, but it\u2019s also colourful and devotional in a heart-on-its-sleeve way that you can\u2019t get away with anymore, which cuts against the dreariness of all that creative anguish. Van Gogh\u2019s drinking buddy Paul Gauguin (Anthony Quinn) holding court about how he \u201clikes \u2018em fat and mean and not too smart\u201d may not appeal to today\u2019s sensibilities but the film does make some charming effort to illustrate the artists\u2019 creative as well as personal disagreements, including a dramatic shouting match over the merits of Barbizon School painter Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#4f697e\">If you would like to receive a roundup of all of our blog posts once a week to keep you inspired in your inbox, why not sign up to our newsletter. You can access our sign up at the top of our page. If you are a London Art College student and you would like your artwork featured here, <a href=\"mailto:techsupport@londonartcolllege.co.uk\">drop us a line<\/a> at any time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still stuck for a Christmas present for your artists friend, or looking to convince your partner\/friend that all that time you spend in your studio is worth the effort?&nbsp; You might think about giving them a movie rather than a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-art-courses-artwork","wpcat-6-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FILMS ABOUT ART OR 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