![]() ![]() "I don't think she ever painted for public approval. People didn't have Picassos or Matisses hanging on the wall, they had Keanes, and so it was something that was staring at you all the time." ![]() "They had a mixture of kind of sad and emotional and slightly disturbing, all at the same time. Burton tells NPR's Renee Montagne that he remembers seeing Keane paintings everywhere as a child. She painted in secret, behind closed doors, and he publicly claimed the work as his own.ĭirector Tim Burton has taken the Keanes' strange partnership as the subject of his new film Big Eyes, and Amy Adams plays Margaret Keane. ![]() Paintings and posters of the big-eyed waifs, often in rags, their hair unkempt, brought fame and fortune to the charming, smooth-talking artist - along with widespread critical disdain.īut years later, it emerged that the art was actually the work of Walter's wife, Margaret Keane. It's a story almost too strange to be true: Throughout much of the 1960s and '70s, the wistful, wide-eyed children of painter Walter Keane were absolutely everywhere. Amy Adams stars as painter Margaret Keane in the new movie Big Eyes. ![]()
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