Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes Nelson Cletus
Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes Nelson Cletus Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When…
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Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes Nelson Cletus
Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane--the credited artist of the weepy waifs, for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992--he discovered some shocking facts. As a result, those weepy waifs may not have been as capricious an invention as they seemed.Parfrey's story was reprinted in Juxtapoz magazine and inspired a Margaret Keane exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the reality that Keane was more of a con man than an artist, and that he forced his wife Margaret to sign his name to her own paintings.
Burton's Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp, was And now director Tim Burton is filming a movie about the Keanes called Big Eyes, and it's scheduled for release in 2014.