While reading about the lives of legendary artists is fascinating, there's something about witnessing them on screen that can't be recreated. So many legendary artists' lives seem tailor-made for film, and happily, several incredible films about painters, musicians, architects, writers, poets, filmmakers, and sculptors have been made throughout the years. Considerable are more documentary-like, while others take some artistic licence with their scripts, but they all paint compelling portraits of their subjects.
