Stories of great creators:
the best films about cult artists

Why one person can create a masterpiece, another is not able to even understand where the best artists are looking for their inspiration, what they have to pay for fame and universal recognition. The creators of the films presented in this collection tried to answer all these questions.

Vincent and Theo

About what: about the formation of a great talent who was destined to turn the world around. Vincent leaves the village to sort himself out and find inspiration, at this time his brother Theo is trying his best to provide for his family by selling paintings in the gallery. But soon Van Gogh’s talent will begin to flourish, conquer the whole world, and everything will begin in Paris, in a small gallery, in a family with its own problems.

Who to watch: movie https://www.ivi.ru/watch/13849 for all who are interested in the origins of great talent, the early years of Van Gogh’s life, his family history.

Chagall-Malevich

About what: about the collision of two completely different artists who have to not only solve a common problem, but also save their lives, find their place in the new world. The country is embraced by revolutionary moods, life is changing at an unimaginable speed. Malevich builds his empire of the future, creates a new army of artists. Chagall, however, follows his own path, which would seem completely inappropriate in this new cruel world.

Who to watch: to anyone who is interested in this difficult and at the same time amazing period in Russian art, in the history of the country.

Pollock

About what: about a great talent that never managed to be revealed in full, about a combination of genius and vice, about strength and weakness. The artist literally dies in New York, painting his extraordinary paintings in the intervals between months in alcoholic oblivion. His colleague Lee managed to consider talent and put her whole life, his career, his destiny at his feet. Off the beaten path, Pollock manages to recover for a short while and this is enough to advance world art for centuries to come.

To whom to look: to all those who know a lot about abstraction and those who still cannot understand the origins of modern art with its bizarre forms.

Lautrec

About what: about a genius whom the high society did not accept, but the bohemian fell in love with her tragedies and a desperate desire to live and love. He is a talented artist with an extraordinary appearance. He is denied entry to salons and the best restaurants, opera and ballet society. But the scenes of the best cabarets, the most unusual galleries and mysterious shows are open in front of him. And it is this closed, full of contradictions world that is embodied in the paintings of the master.

Who to watch: those who want to discover something new in art, as well as lovers of beautiful films in the style of French chic.

The material was prepared using the online cinema ivi.ru