The Best Modern Art Documentaries

Art, Music & Design - 17 free documentaries about modern art.

Start with Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained (16 min, Great Art Explained), then Egon Schiele: Great Art Explained (25 min, Great Art Explained). All 17 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on modern art is The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes.

• Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained (16 min, Great Art Explained)
• Egon Schiele: Great Art Explained (25 min, Great Art Explained)
• The Kiss by Gustav Klimt: Great Art Explained (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• Great STOLEN Art Explained; Egon Schiele (19 min, Great Art Explained)
• The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (9 min, The Art Assignment)
• Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’: Great Art Explained (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained (14 min, Great Art Explained)
• Matisse: The Red Studio: Great Art Explained (25 min, Great Art Explained)
• Gustav Klimt and the Nazis: Great Art Cities: Vienna (18 min, Great Art Explained)
• Georgia O'Keeffe: Great Art Explained (16 min, Great Art Explained)
• Modern Art and the Decline of Civilization (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Edward Hopper and Cinema: A Great Art Explained Extra (12 min, Great Art Explained)
• What this painting tells us about Frida Kahlo (10 min, The Art Assignment)
• Better Know: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (8 min, The Art Assignment)
• Art Cooking: Frida Kahlo | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (12 min, The Art Assignment)
• Curator's Introduction | Picasso Ingres - Face to Face | National Gallery (53 min, The National Gallery)
• BSL interpretation: Curator's Introduction | Picasso Ingres - Face to Face | National Gallery (53 min, The National Gallery)

Top-Rated Books About Modern Art

1. The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes - View on Amazon
2. A Life of Picasso by JOHN RICHARDSON - View on Amazon
3. The Unknown Matisse by Hilary Spurling - View on Amazon
4. Frida by Hayden Herrera - View on Amazon
5. Concepts of Modern Art by Nikos Stangos - View on Amazon
6. Art since 1900 by Hal Foster - View on Amazon
7. Pioneers of modern design from William Morris to Walter Gropius by Nikolaus Pevsner - View on Amazon
8. The Humanistic Tradition by Gloria K. Fiero - View on Amazon
9. Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia - View on Amazon
10. Art since 1940 by Jonathan David Fineberg - View on Amazon