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Best Visual Arts Films of 2001


Half Past Autumn: The Life and Art of Gordon Parks

In this video, viewers ... remembered for the essays that accompanied his photos, essays that influenced the way people approached the subjects he documented. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Rembrandt: Fathers and Sons

The six-part made-for-television Artists' ... the Dancer, and Monet: Shadow and Light. The highly acclaimed series is designed for youngsters age eight and older. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

The Post-Impressionists: Cezanne

From Kultur's Great Artists ... The other videos in the set are Post-Impressionists: Gauguin, Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec, Post-Impressionists: Munch, and Post-Impressionists: Rousseau. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

The Post-Impressionists: Gauguin

From Kultur's The Great ... The other videos in the set are Post-Impressionists: Cézanne, Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec, Post-Impressionists: Munch, and Post-Impressionists: Rousseau. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

The Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh

From Kultur's Great Artists ... minutes. The other videos in the set are Post-Impressionists: Gauguin, Post-Impressionists: Cézanne, Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec, Post-Impressionists: Munch, and Post-Impressionists: Rousseau. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

The Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec

From Kultur's Great Artists ... The other videos in the set are Post-Impressionists: Gauguin, Post-Impressionists: Cézanne, Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Post-Impressionists: Munch, and Post-Impressionists: Rousseau. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

The Post-Impressionists: Rousseau

From Kultur's Great Artists ... The other videos in the set are Post-Impressionists: Gauguin, Post-Impressionists: Cézanne, Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec, and Post-Impressionists: Munch. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Genius: Leonardo Da Vinci

The life of artist ... focusing on Da Vinci's remarkable drawings, mirror-written notebooks, and groundbreaking theories in the realms of biology, astronomy, and physiology. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Great Women Artists: Georgia O'Keeffe

Great Women Artists: Georgia ... goal was to create an equivalent for what she felt about what she was looking at, not copy it. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Great Women Artists: Mary Cassatt

Great Women Artists: Mary ... acquire works by Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Degas, and Pisarro, making him one of the first important American collectors. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Great Women Artists: Frida Kahlo

This documentary is part ... she was great friends with Leo Tolstoy, whose philosophy she embraced. This documentary presents some of Kahlo's best-known paintings. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye

Known as "the Father ... of Stieglitz as a prolific artist and in the art community are celebrated in Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

The Post-Impressionists: Munch

From Kultur's Great Artists ... The other videos in the set are Post-Impressionists: Gauguin, Post-Impressionists: Cézanne, Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec, and Post-Impressionists: Rousseau. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

George Segal: American Still Life

This program profiles sculptor ... within it. A highlight of the program is a look inside the previously inaccessible barn/museum of this American great. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Turner in Switzerland

London-born Joseph Mallord William ... Switzerland takes viewers to the enchanting locations where the painter found inspiration for his well-loved works featuring Swiss landscapes. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Vincent: A Dutchman

This program is part ... where Van Gogh was institutionalized, to observe the vantage points from which he painted some of his best-known works. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Odyssey: The Mind's Eye Presents Computer Animation Adventure

From the creators of ... Each work is presented in its entirety in order to best preserve the vision of the creators and producers. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon

After establishing himself with ... life and career, including highlights from his documentaries of animation legends as well as clips from his own films. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Through the Years of Hip Hop, Vol. 1: Graffiti

Hip-Hop culture has always ... tracks, including hits by Run-DMC, Dana Dane, Queen Latifah, De La Soul, and Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

War Photographer

Christian Frei's documentary War ... the emotional toll his work has taken on him. War Photographer was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Absolut Warhola

Absolut Warhola traces famous ... often sent them his prized work only for them to end up as children's play toys or makeshift clothing. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Rivers and Tides

Documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer shows ... Penport, Scotland, and to a French museum, but the emphasis of the film is on observing Goldsworthy at work. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Empire of the Nude: The Victorian Nude

While the Victorian era ... sculpture and photography. The film includes interviews with artists and historians George Frederic Watts, William Etty, and Lord Leighton. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death

John Richardson directs this ... inspiration, the film examines Picasso's life as well as his obsessions with the occult, with eroticism, and with mortality. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Architectures, Vol. 1

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Die Sieben Letzten Worte

18th century Austrian composer ... Worte features Haydn's Die Sieben Letzten Worte Unseres Erlosers am Kreuze Hob XX:1a along with several of Francesca's frescoes. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]

Maillart's Bridges

This feature-length experimental documentary ... meditation on one architect's ability to spin life and human expression from a seemingly dull and unremarkable, manufactured substance. [ best visual arts films - 2001 ]




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