Capturing the essence of artistic genius onscreen welcomes hyperbole. Usually, in films about painters or musicians, a secondary character will simply proclaim: “So-and-so, you have changed culture as ...

Julian Schnabel made his debut film, Basquiat, less than a decade after its subject, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at age 27. An impressionistic portrait of a young artist who took the New ...

“Final Portrait” is, indeed, a film about a portrait, done by Alberto Giacometti of his friend James Lord in 1964. Considered the last great painting by the Swiss painter and sculptor, who died in ...