Disconnect (2012)

Paula Patton plays artist Cindy Hull

Cindy Hull is a grieving mother who has an online business as an artist selling her papercuts

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A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world.

Cindy Hull is a grieving mother who has an online business as an artist selling her papercuts

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Ingrid Goes West (2017)

Wyatt Russell plays artist Ezra O'Keefe

Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) is a mentally unstable social media stalker who moves to LA and ingratiates herself into the life of an Instagram influencer who she has become obsessed with. The influencer played by Elizabeth Olsen is the girlfriend of the artist in this movie.

The artist Daniel San Souci painted the wild horse painting in the film. In the movie the artist Ezra O'Keefe paints the words Squad Goals onto it. The art works in the movie made by Ezra seem to be inspired by the artist Wayne White's artwork.

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Kevin Kline plays the artist Maurice,
Belle's protective widowed father who works as a music box maker and an artist.

The artist Maurice with his daughter Belle in his workshop and studio 

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A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.
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A close up of one of of Maurice's music boxes which portrays him painting a portrait of his wife holding their child Belle.

Maurice working on the music box

Detail of the portrait scene inside the music box

Maurice looks at a portrait on the wall, it is the same one from the music box

Close up of Maurice's portrait of his wife and child

Belle looks at some sketches Maurice has made of her

A Simple Favor (2018)

Linda Cardellini plays artist Diana Hyland

The artist Diana Hyland in her studio surrounded by her paintings

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Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.

Stephanie investigates Emily's past, speaking to Diana Hyland, an artist who painted a portrait of Emily. Diana says the girl in the painting is Claudia, her muse, and describes her as a con artist who disappeared.
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Diana Hyland : She never let me paint her face except for this one. I've never seen such a beautiful girl want to be so invisible or just completely vanish. But you know what, it takes money to vanish, and so she took everything that she could from me. You know how I would paint you? Beautific. Like, like a fucking saint.

Stephanie : I get that a lot.

Diana Hyland : You should embrace it. People love saints.

Stephanie : Yeah, after they're dead.

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

Léa Seydoux plays artist Emma

Emma sketches Adele

Emma's finished sketch of Adele

Adele poses of Emma's painting  

Adele cooks a meal to be served at Emma's exhibition and private view party in their apartment  

Emma at her private view in a gallery

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Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
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