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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015) is a English movie. Lisa Immordino Vreeland has directed this movie. Peggy Guggenheim,Jacqueline Bograd Weld,Francine Prose,John Richardson are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015) is considered one of the best Documentary,Biography,History movie in India and around the world.
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, which is today enshrined in her famous Venetian palazzo. The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015) Reviews
Lovely film
This is a beautifully and passionately made film about a woman, Peggy Guggenheim, whose name is well known, but the details of whose long life, until now, haven't been that well known. One thing that stood out for me was how many tragedies she suffered -- father died on the Titanic, a sister died in childbirth, the love of her life died in surgery, and two of her nephews fell from a skyscraper and died. Any one of those events would have felled many people. But she carried on. And even though she was very wealthy, negotiating the very male dominated world of artists and galleries would have been difficult. She was one tough lady, yet she not only survived, but thrived, through what the film makes clear is a genuine love of the art, of artists and the art world. The list of interviewees and the showcase of galleries and artworks, spliced with historic footage and social context, is impeccable. From an early age, it would have been much easier for Ms Guggenheim to sit back and become a ditzy socialite, spending her millions shopping and travelling, but instead she chose a much more interesting cerebral and artistic life. What an amazing lady.
A Woman Before Her Time
"Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is such an insightful movie about a woman that was far before her time. A truly inspiring story, Lisa Immordino Vreeland did a fantastic job capturing such an innovative woman and telling her story beautifully. Peggy Guggenheim was such a liberated woman and it was wonderful to see her passion through the film. Such an incredible Indie film! I'm so happy I can support films like these because it is key as fellow artists that we support one another's talents and storytelling. "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" is a mesmerizing documentary of a passionate, artistic woman.
Remarkable Life Story
This documentary focuses on the remarkable life story of Peggy Guggenheim, who passed away in 1979 at the age of 81. Utilizing her keen eye and instincts regarding new modern artists, she was able to amass one of the truly great collections of art, worth billions today but for which she paid most minimal amounts at the time of purchase. Although I really liked Guggenheim's brutal honesty, the film itself was not an easy watch for me as my DVD copy had no subtitles (except for segments of taped interviews she did) and the sound quality was not terrific either. However, the power of the tale of her colorful life, at times marked by personal tragedies, and the staggering displays of artwork that were flashed on screen made it certainly worthwhile to view for me. Overall,this documentary, directed by Lisa Immordini Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) tells a fascinating story of a most unique woman, whose legacy lives on in the spectacular artwork on display in museums and galleries around the world.
The fruits of art addiction
Peggy Guggenheim accomplished two things noteworthy and lasting enough for books to be written and documentaries to be filmed about her, even to this day. She nurtured a set of talented young artists that turned out to be among the most influential of her century, and she put together one of the world's great collections of work by this same group of artists. And there's more. She was quite a character. The guts that she showed in following her tastes in art also led her to affairs, brief and occasionally longer, with men, often young men, and especially artists she admired for more than their artistic talents. This led her to be widely gossiped about, not that this mattered enough to her to change her ways. The film is sympathetic but not at all hagiographic. It's very well put together, framed around a candid oral interview with her late in life, and interspersed with comments from dozens of art world luminaries-- artists, dealers, critics--who knew her (sometimes in several senses of that term). The film points out the duplicity of the culture that tolerates sexual promiscuity in males more than in females. Looking back on her life at the end of the film, Guggenheim comments on what made her happiest and on what she still desired most. Happily for the viewer, she speaks as honestly and as bluntly then as always.
An enjoyable romp
Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979), a famous art collector who contributed to the modern art movement beginning in the 1940s, is the subject of this American documentary. This film includes recordings of an interview with Guggenheim shortly before her death. As the tapes had been thought lost, they add heft to the film. And the content itself is more than engaging. Peggy is the niece of Solomon Guggenheim who founded the famous museum in New York. The stories of her family background make for great drama by themselves, sadly including tragedies in her childhood as well as in middle-age. With fabulous footage and interviews, this film follows its subject's life and career at a fine pace. They include that great era of Paris in the 1920s, WWII, and the post-war years in New York and later, Venice. Taking the viewer through art history lessons is a bonus. The viewer also gets to vicariously enjoy watching the lives of the jet-setting rich and famous with all the indulgences and many incidents of sleeping around. By the end, we feel internally richer getting to know a fascinating woman well ahead of her time. A fine doc, indeed.