Arguably the least “political” of his films, Painters Painting is an intimate portrait of the major figures of the art world’s acclaimed New York School. Featuring a who’s who of postwar American art including painters Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Japser Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, architect Philip Johnson, curator Henry Geldzahler and critic Clement Greenberg among many others, de Antonio cleverly mixes black and white interview footage with color shots of the actual paintings. De Antonio had a long-standing relationship with many of the featured artists which dated back to the days in which when he represented them as a business agent (although he preferred the moniker of “catalyst”).