Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema:
Surprisingly, only a few filmmakers have been impelled to present the lives of artists on the big screen. Looking at some of the important painters of the world, they have tried to show what these artists were affected by, their vision, their technique, and their struggles. When these films are true to their subject, they illustrate what has been explained for the first time by Aesthetic Realism: the large fight in every artist, as in every person, is between respect, which is the source of all art, and contempt, which is the greatest enemy of both art and life.
Some of the films I’ll be discussing are: The Girl with the Pearl Earring, Rembrandt, Pollock, Lust For Life, Renoir, Moulin Rouge (1952)