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Touch: The Painter's Hand

Touch: The Painter's Hand

"Touch" presents the various "painter's hands" that characterize the artistic personalities of their owners. The film reviews the history of painting, highlighting two major, contrasting brushstroke...
Drawing: The Line at the Origin of Art

Drawing: The Line at the Origin of Art

The drawn or engraved line—the most ancient artistic gesture—provides the basis for all art forms: painting, sculpture, architecture, etc. Mastery of the line was a prerequisite for the conquest of...

The Artist's Studio: An Art Laboratory

The Artist's Studio: An Art Laboratory

The film takes viewers into artists' studios—from the art classroom at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts to the individual painter's studio—and shows them to be places of creativity and liberty,...
Pigments: The Colors of the Earth, from Lascaux to Picasso

Pigments: The Colors of the Earth, from Lascaux...

The use of paints of all kinds, from natural plant and mineral pigments to the chemical and industrial production of colors. Available for sale on the publisher's website.

Supports: The Origin of Paintings

Supports: The Origin of Paintings

The film explores the history of the materials that have been used as supports for painting and decoration, with special emphasis on the most popular among them: the wood panel and the...
Surfaces: When Painting Takes to the Walls

Surfaces: When Painting Takes to the Walls

"Surfaces" tells the story of how painters appropriated walls, in their quest to cover the largest possible surfaces. Available for sale on the publisher's website.