Artist biographical movies on youtube

The term "artist" is a broad one that can encompass everything from poets to architects, filmmakers to musicians, dancers to actors.

Art is subjective, but you definitely know it when you see it.

For this article on documentaries about artists, we're sticking with films that primarily focus on painters and sculptors and other visual artists, although there are a few noteworthy exceptions.

You're bound to learn a lot from these fascinating artist documentaries that take us behind the ropes of both traditional and avant-garde art galleries, exhibits, and performances.

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Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016)

Art is typically associated with images—concrete depictions that can be captured, hung, and admired for months, years, or even centuries. Whether by brush, chisel, or lens, we think of these pieces as distilled moments of time or emotion that decorate mus