Avainsana Painter

THE FRENCH DISPATCH herättää henkiin kokoelman tarinoita fiktionaalisessa ranskalaisessa kaupungissa 1900-luvulla julkaistun amerikkalaisen lehden jäähyväisnumerosta.

1700-luvun Ranskassa nuori taiteilija Marianne saa tehtäväkseen maalata nuoresta Héloïsesta muotokuvan – tämän tietämättä. Malliksi tarkoitettu Héloïse nimittäin kieltäytyy poseeraamasta taiteilijoille enteillen, että maalaus on tarkoitettu naimakauppoja avittamaan. Marianne esitelläänkin tälle seuraneitinä. Mariannen tehtäväksi jää Héloïsen piirteiden mieleen painaminen päivisin pitkien kävelyretkien aikana ja muotokuvan toteuttaminen salassa yön pimeinä tunteina. Päivä päivältä naiset lähentyvät, mutta Héloïsen häiden lähestyessä huumaava vapauden aika on auttamatta tulossa päätökseensä.

Gil saapuu Pariisiin tulevan vaimonsa Inezin ja tämän vanhempien kanssa. Ensimmäisen romaaninsa kanssa taisteleva Gil ihastuu rakkauden kaupunkiin ja löytää sen sinisistä öistä korvaamatonta inspiraatiota, jonka luonnetta hän yrittää turhaan selittää muille. Inez ei liioin vakuutu Gilin aikeista muuttaa Pariisiin heidän purjehdittuaan avioliiton satamaan.

Mielikuvituksekas Ishaan joutuu sisäoppilaitokseen, jossa omaperäinen kuvaamataidon opettaja yrittää auttaa nuorta haaveilijaa löytämään todellisen identiteettinsä.

Adam on 27-vuotias, kiltti, tunnollinen ja kunnollinen kaveri, jolla on terveet elämäntavat, viehättävä tyttöystävä ja työ, jossa hän viihtyy. Kaikki muuttuu, kun Adam saa tietää sairastavansa harvinaista syövän muotoa. Adam ottaa uutisen vastaan tyynesti, ympärillä olevilla ihmisillä on suurempia vaikeuksia sopeutua tietoon. Suorasukaisimmin asiasta järkyttyy Adamin paras kaveri, Kyle, jonka lohdutusyritykset ovat yhtä huonoja kuin ne ovat hauskojakin.

Koskettava rakkaustarina joka pohjautuu Lili Elben ja Gerda Wegenerin elämäntarinaan. Vuoden 1926 Kööpenhaminassa elävä taiteilija Einar Wegener, joka on naimisissa Gerda Wegenerin kanssa, tunnetaan maisemamaalauksistaan. Myös Gerda on taiteilija, vähemmän tunnettu, mutta työllistyy merkkihenkilöiden muotokuvamaalarina. Heidän avioliittonsa on vahva ja täynnä rakkautta. Kaikki muuttuu, kun Gerda pyytää miestään asettumaan malliksi ja pukeutumaan naisen asuun viimeistelläkseen maalauksensa. Kokemus mullistaa pariskunnan koko elämän. Einar huomaa, että ollessaan Lili hän kykenee toteuttamaan itseään aidoimmillaan ja ryhtyy elämään naisena. Gerda taas löytää Lilistä uuden muusan ja kypsyy taiteilijana uuteen kukoistukseen. Pariskunta joutuu kohtaamaan myös ympäröivän yhteiskunnan ennakkoluulot. He lähtevät kotimaastaan avomielisempään Pariisiin. Yhä uudelleen Gerda osoittaa tukensa Lilille, joka tekee hänestä yhden maailman ensimmäisistä sukupuolenkorjauksen pioneereista.

Elokuva taidemaaalari Vincent Van Goghin viimeisistä vuosista Arlesin väriloiston keskellä ja ystävyydestä Paul Gauguinin kanssa, Theo-veljen tuesta ja mielenterveyden järkkymisestä.

Deuce Bigalow lähtee Amsterdamiin auttamaan entistä sutenööriään pulasta. Luvassa on hulvattomat nauruorgiat, jotka saavat sinut kirkumaan ihastuksesta elokuvan alusta loppuun!

The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Ross could complete a painting in half an hour, the intent of the show was not to teach viewers "speed painting". Rather, he intended for viewers to learn certain techniques within the time that the show was allotted. The show began on January 11, 1983, and lasted until May 17, 1994, a year before Ross' death.

For Anna, every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder… Or did she?

Single since birth, Yuan Qian and Qin Shen are two people who will probably end up being single for life because they want to. Set against the backdrop of an art school, the story follows students who overcome many difficulties to pursue their artistic ideals. Qin Shen is a student who dreams of becoming a sculptor. A freshman in their department, he is like a god-level existence in their school - cold, disciplined and a perfectionist. However, girls mean nothing to him and he finds dating to be a complete waste of time. Yuan Qian has the appearance of the cute girl next door but has a headstrong personality. She is eloquent and determined such that no one can stop her once she sets her mind to something. However, she has a tendency to pick at other people's shortcomings so much that no guy can impress her.

In the early Republic of China, police officer A Lai is saved by a mysterious woman, Lu Na, who falls into a coma. Using her comic books, he solves cases and uncovers clues about her past, all while facing rising dangers linked to his newfound success.

Set during the Joseon era, Hong Cheon Ki is a female painter with a genius like painting talent. She is picked as the first female painter of the Dohwaseo. Hong Cheon Ki also has a beautiful appearance and a bright personality. For her, painting is everything. One day, she meets Ha Ram.

Set in the flamboyant 1930s, “This is not a murder mystery” reunites world renowned Surrealist artists, including young Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, who find themselves trapped in a lavish mansion with a mysterious serial killer on the loose.

Painter of the Wind is a 2008 South Korean historical television series starring Moon Geun-young and Park Shin-yang. Based on the bestselling historical fiction novel by Lee Jung-myung that took artistic license with the premise that perhaps the Joseon painter Shin Yun-bok had really been a woman, it centers on Yun-bok, a talented young painter who disguises herself as a boy to search for her father's murderer. She meets Kim Hong-do, a master painter who guides her into becoming a great artist, and they develop a strong friendship of mentor and disciple. The drama has won numerous awards, including the Asian TV Series Special Award at the 2010 Shanghai Television Festival and the silver award at the 2010 Houston International Film Festival, while actress Moon Geun-young received the grand prize at the 2008 SBS Drama Awards, as well as Best TV Actress at the 2009 Baeksang Arts Awards and 2008 Grimae Awards for her role.

Mistral's Daughter is a 1984 American television miniseries written by Terence Feely and Rosemary Anne Sisson, based on Judith Krantz's eponymous 1982 novel. The eight-episode serial—starring Stacy Keach, Stefanie Powers, and Lee Remick—follows the lives of women connected to tempestuous painter Julien Mistral, across several decades in France, exploring themes of art, love, and scandal.

A painter gets diagnosed terminally ill. On his 58th birthday, he plans to share his last will and testimony. His great legacy and immense fortune slowly draw out his family's inner greed, causing a fierce mental battle amongst them. They are too many people around him who are only after his legacy, including his ex-wife Ji Sul Young, who has taken care of him, Kim Ji Hye, a former mistress and mother to his daughter, and Dokko Chul, a son from a different father. They face different outcomes by the different choices they make as their greed overwhelms them. What are the limits of human greed?

The essence of love is fading and is evermore harder to do. In this day and age, will there be love that is woeful and forlorn just for the sake of love itself? Love in Sadness is a love story that encapsulates the mythical-like fate of love that is so coveted that it ignores all bounds. In it, love outweighs what the world thinks, ignores the pain and anguish with it, and pursues its destiny. In the drama, Ma Ri is a beautiful girl, married into wealth with a seemingly perfect life. Ironically, her husband, In Wook, who looks like a more than ideal husband, is an obsessive lunatic who is also violently abusive. When he pushes her too far, she reaches out for help from Jung Won, an honest, smart, handsome plastic surgeon. And when he agrees to help her escape from her husband's hands, they fall in love. But In Wook, who is consumed by his obsession for her, isn't going to let her get away from his grasp. Watch as these two characters struggle to stay on their arduous road to love.

A thriving painter's enviable life begins to fray at the edges when a bright young woman she once befriended resurfaces as a shell of her former self.

Painter Zheng Xue Jing accidentally acquires a magical pen and frees three foxes from a screen. She becomes involved into their world because from that moment on, she's their "master."

The Impressionists is a three-part factual docudrama from the BBC, which reconstructs the origins of the Impressionist art movement.

Yan Fei has a boyfriend, but when he meets Hai Qing, they instantly click. After an unfortunate event, they lose contact, but neither can forget the other.

An educational French TV documentary series which goes into depth during each episode into the analysis of a single painting.

The life of famous painter Paul Gauguin.

Artful Penny could indeed draw anything she wanted with her magic crayon and it would spring into life. A fantastically useful toy to have. Only her best friend friend Dennis knew her secret so the two had acres of fun winding up adults, nosey-parkers, bullies, bad guys, teachers and ne'er-do-wells with her creations, or solving problems for folk, or sketching their way out of tricky situations. Penny would scribble away, her arm becoming a blurr as she worked and then - hey presto! - her line drawing would leap off the drawing surface as a fully-formed 3D object.

Michelangelo, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh - the documentary series "Giants of Art" dedicates a film to each of these three artists. Three exceptional geniuses who went their own way and left behind iconographic works of art; which still inspire the art world today.

Bojan the Bear is a painter who paints his own world with three colours. A friend of his enters the world, using two other colours - white and black - to paint glaciers.

Great Art Explained is a video series that focuses on one piece of art per episode, breaking it down, using clear and concise language free of 'art-speak'.