Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)

November 16th, 20180h 53min

Documentary, TV Movie
55%

Overview

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan

Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan


Released on: 2020-06-08
Documentary

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

Sand Men

Sand Men


Released on:
Documentary

Neculai, Aurel and Raj all left their homes in Romania for the same reason - to seek a better life f...

Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious

Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious


Released on: 1964-01-01
Documentary

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Dangerous Lies: Unmasking Belle Gibson

Dangerous Lies: Unmasking Belle Gibson


Released on: 2025-02-17
Documentary

The real story of wellness campaigner Belle Gibson's massive worldwide fraud and the famous intervie...

Dear Thirteen

Dear Thirteen


Released on: 2022-11-13
Documentary

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age i...

Freeze: But is it Art?

Freeze: But is it Art?


Released on: 1994-02-22
Documentary

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...

El universo en una caja

El universo en una caja


Released on: 2022-10-28
Documentary, History

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...

The Making of Yaaba

The Making of Yaaba


Released on: 1989-01-02
Documentary

Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature f...

Fluisteraars

Fluisteraars


Released on: 2024-04-14
Documentary

Destroying your own artwork. For many artists it is unmentionable, but Loes Heebink from Kolderveen ...

The Painting

The Painting


Released on: 2019-11-08
Documentary, History, Animation

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

In My Own Words

In My Own Words


Released on: 2017-06-09
Documentary

The raw, heartfelt and often funny journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they d...

Cartoon College

Cartoon College


Released on: 2012-04-01
Documentary

Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, ...

Jane

Jane


Released on: 2017-12-28
Documentary

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives...

The King

The King


Released on: 2007-05-20
Drama, TV Movie

The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It ...

Dawn of the Damned

Dawn of the Damned


Released on: 1965-07-05
Documentary, History, Drama

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

Konrad Mägi

Konrad Mägi


Released on: 2019-11-30
Documentary

A documentary made for Konrad Mägi exhibition "The Light of the North" in Torino, Musei Reali (2019-...

Phantasia

Phantasia


Released on: 2024-03-13
Documentary, Animation, Drama, Horror

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

Exergo

Exergo


Released on: 2024-05-04
Documentary, Drama

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...

The Postcard Bandit

The Postcard Bandit


Released on: 2003-06-01
Action, Crime, Drama, TV Movie

The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postca...

Dominion

Dominion


Released on: 2018-03-29
Documentary

Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras,...