Here are a handful of great documentaries that I’ve found inspiring in one way or another. I love watching artists work. I love watching the focus, the intensity and all the small decisions that go into finishing a work of art or a completed designed object. This all probably started with watching Bob Ross as a kid (Someone please make a Bob Ross documentary!)
I hope you find some of these interesting and inspiring. Please share your favorites in the comment section.
• Beautiful Losers
• Helvetica
• Objectified
• The Cool School
• Crumb
• Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
• Art: 21 - Art in the 21st Century
• Rivers and Tides
• Style Wars
Comments:
The Line King, about cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, is an amazing art documentary. I show it to my students every semester.
i like “sketches of frank gehry”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446784/
but i really like “film school”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402641/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390123/
In the Realms of the Unreal, a janitor who lived by himself, created amazing art only discovered after he died.
And yes please, a Bob Ross doc!!!
Thanks for your post - I found all of your suggestions on Netflix - about half of them on “Watch Instantly” - I’ve got some viewing to do!
Those of these that I have seen, I love. I can’t wait to check out the Bresson video! Two of my favorites are the Hillman Curtis Artist series (which Scott showed me in one of his classes) and I’m also fan of American Masters: Alexander Calder.
I watched Rivers and Tides recently and wow!! It reminded me of how important and healthy art can be to the artist in the process of making it.
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