1770. Marianne é pintora e tem de pintar o retrato de casamento de Héloïse, uma jovem que acaba de sair do convento. Héloïse resiste ao seu destino de esposa, recusando posar. Marianne tem de a pintar em segredo. Apresentada como dama de companhia, observa-a todos os dias.
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
Enquanto de visita a Paris, em 1964, James Lord, escritor americano e amante das artes, é convidado pelo reconhecido artista Albert Giacometti a pousar para um retrato. Giacometti assegura a Lord que o processo demorará apenas alguns dias. Lisonjeado e curioso, Lord concorda em posar. Assim começa não só a história de uma peculiar amizade, mas também uma exploração, através do olhar de Lord, sobre a beleza, frustração, profundidade e ocasional caos do processo artístico.
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions..
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
The girlfriend of a beatnik-hippy artist enjoys having her body painted, posing naked for her boyfriend and seducing other men.