Discovery in a Painting (2016)

You can watch Discovery in a Painting (2016) online for free in HD on FreeFlix. No signup or subscription is required — just open this page and click play.

Yes. FreeFlix offers Discovery in a Painting in full HD with multiple mirror sources, so if one source is slow you can switch in one click.

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed at deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see. Working with his second wife, the editor Peggy Lawson, he made four short films comprising The Art of Seeing Series. The films, made without words, are beautiful poems to the pleasure of sight. This film came as a challenge that Hurwitz made for himself, to replicate in film his experience of seeing a work of art — in this case Césanne’s Still Life with Apples, 1895-98, that hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Although he finished the visual part of the film, he was stymied by the soundtrack in which he wanted no narration. About 45 years later, his colleague, Manfred Kirchheimer, created a sound track and produced the finished film.

No. FreeFlix is completely free, with no registration, account, credit card, or hidden charges.