The movie Pollock, directed by Ed Harris and released in 2000, was an emotional movie that I feel showed the life of an artist in an accurate way. The ups and downs of the movie were captivating for the audience to watch and it also had its fair share of drama as well. The drama […]
Read MoreBig Eyes, by Allicyn Bajkowski
Big Eyes, a 2014 film directed by Tim Burton, is the story of American painter Margaret Keane, who rose to fame after exposing her husband, Walter Keane, who had been taking credit for her haunting paintings of children with huge eyes as they grew in popularity. The film stars Amy Adams as Margaret and Christoph […]
Read MoreBig Eyes, by Lily McKechnie
Big Eyes tells the real-life story of how Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) created an empire of “big eyes”, paintings of children with huge, sad eyes, which he then passed off as his own, even though it was his wife Margaret (Amy Adams) who secretly painted them. For years Margaret keeps their secret, until after their divorce […]
Read MorePollock, by Maya Throne
Producing a biographical film, particularly about an artist, without forcing a simple relationship between the artist’s life and their paintings, can be tedious. It is imperative for filmmakers to adequately represent the artist as a living, breathing, human being who works, and not strictly a chronicle of their art, or conversely, using art to chronicle […]
Read MorePollock, by Tucker Pierson
The movie starts at the end of the 1940s and Jackson Pollock, the renowned abstract expressionist is a feature in Life magazine. This is the beginning scene of “Pollock.” Not much is known about the movie and the art it holds other than being based on the book “Jackson Pollock: An American Saga” Little does […]
Read MoreBig Eyes, by Katianna Lapotsky
Big Eyes (2014), directed by Tim Burton, is a film based on the true story of Walter and Margaret Keane in the fifties and sixties. Margaret leaves her first husband and takes off to North Beach in San Francisco with her daughter which was not common in this time period. She gets a job painting […]
Read More