Little is known about what the ambitious young painter saw in Paris, apart from his visiting the doyen of African-American artists, the expatriate symbolist Henry Ossawa Tanner, and beginning to collect African art.

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One of the few who dared was the young British painter Bridget Riley.

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"Rising Up" first introduces us to the gifted young painter in Paris, experimenting with a variety of modernist painting languages.

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Wealthy Americans summered in this scenic region from the 19th Century onwards, as did many artists including the famous 20th-cntury Canadian painter Alexander Young Jackson.

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Churchill approved and the young Hassan was subsequently allowed to train as a painter in Paris.

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One sunny morning in 1983, a model named Amanda slipped on an antique French blouse, swept back her long auburn hair, and turned toward the painter Tom Keating, pouting her lips as young girls did for Renoir.

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Over time, though, he warms to the invaders: Joe (Bobby Cannavale), loud and lonely, who sells coffee and hot dogs from a neighboring van, and Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a painter, still mourning the loss of a young son.

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