Painters Painting

This documentary is a survey of artists and their art from the period of Abstract Expressionism, through Hard Edge and Color Field painting to Pop Art. Emile de Antonio captures the zeitgeist of those existentialist times with interesting interviews with the artists. The viewer may learn as much about the artist from each one's studio, where the conversations take place, as from anything that is said. Among the featured painters are William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frnkenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hoffman, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland.