There are a number of extraordinary films that study the lives of artists and how they expressed their quality of life in their artwork. There is a common thread throughout the history of artistic expression, which emanates from both the artist’s visual perception and emotional reaction to human interrelationships and to nature itself. Explore the stories of six 20th-century artists each with unique plot twists, revealing the artistic process (light) and a personal battle (shadow). We will study the intuitive artist in Seraphine (2008), the competitive artist in Modigliani (2004), the intellectual bohemian in Carrington (1995), the uniquely passionate artist in Frida (2002), the unsure artist in Pollock (2000) and the political/artistic rebel artist in Basquiat (1996). These are films of extraordinary beauty, with enough drama to make reality TV look like Sesame Street!