An amateur painter attends his first art show, hoping to sell some of his work. He soon understands, however, that the path to success in art is not nearly as simple as he once perceived it to be.

A woman on a farm in France in the late 1800s meet a curious young man who is an artist. The two develop a friendly relationship as they learn from each other new ways of seeing the world.

After an esteemed Parisian artist is reported to have burned seventy-eight of his paintings, two New York art gallery owners construct a scam in which they sell forged renditions of the supposedly-burned paintings.

When an art gallery owner in Paris decides to bring an old, dead painter back into popularity, he must first deal with the painter’s fascist beliefs and manipulative widow.

After he is buried alive by a mysterious figure, a hapless artist begins to think the form of intense and scattered fractals, that evoke his artistic background and tenuous relationship with religious iconography.

Alyse, a part-time writer, is unable to excavate any interest from her seemingly boring family, utterly unaware of the deeply complex and exciting adventures her brother, sister, and aunt often have

A talented lower class painter strikes a horrible deal with a popular, untalented nobleman - his masterpieces will receive the adoration they deserve, under another man's name.

A teenage girl who lives with her grandparents in France learns about art, beauty, and womanhood from the underpaid models who pose for her grandfather's paintings. One of the former exploited models becomes a mentor to the girl and inspires her to make things right.

An elderly amateur artist in New York calls an arts organization, asking for a young nude model to be sent to his home for his "sketches."

A man who is trying to find his place in the world tries his hand at multiple professions but ultimately settles with painting. Though he has talent as a painter, he leaves his patrons unsatisfied, taking wild artistic liberties he takes with commissions—a lesson which his two closest friends will come to learn when he paints a portrait of one of them.