The movie plays fast and loose with details of his life, but Jeffrey Wright's fine performance as the artist redeems it. Her husband, Walter Keane, sold the kitsch paintings as his, making millions. Yet, the middle class purchasers displaying her paintings on suburban walls never knew the true artist. His extraordinary gifts were overshadowed by his drug addiction, and he died of a heroin overdose at 27. (1927-2022) Painter Biography Many born in the late 1950s and 1960s grew up under the sad, soulful big-eyed images of artist Margret Keanes popular art. Basquiat gained acclaim as a young man for his intense, mysterious works incorporating social and ethnic tropes. Ed Harris is stellar as Pollock.Įven more than Pollock, this movie about Jean-Michel Basquiat puts us in the center of 1980s New York and its art scene. On the contrary, Jackson Pollock was a complex, fascinating character, and we see him in the context of the abstract expressionist movement, becoming a star and a self-destructive jerk. Salma Hayek portrays the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, whose tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera (played by Alfred Molina), severe health problems and feminist fierceness influenced her most famous works, her self-portraits.Ī movie about a man who spends his days dripping paint onto canvases would be as interesting as - wait for it - watching paint dry. It's an interesting psychological study, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. Walter foisted a hoax on the world, claiming he was the artist while Margaret was the one doing all the work. This film tells the bizarre story of Walter and Margaret Keane and the paintings of big-eyed, melancholy children that made them wealthy.
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