Citizen Keane, the big lies behind the big eyes, by Adam Parfrey and Cletus Nelson
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Citizen Keane, the big lies behind the big eyes, by Adam Parfrey and Cletus Nelson
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eng
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Citizen Keane
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by Adam Parfrey and Cletus Nelson
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the big lies behind the big eyes
Summary
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. 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. 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. Director Tim Burton made a movie about the Keanes called Big Eyes, which came out in 2014
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adult
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