Llyn Foulkes: One-man Band screens at 7:30pm this Friday and Saturday (February 6th and 7th) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium
80-year old, L.A.-based artist Llyn Foulkes has refused to define his career within the rigid expectations of the art world and is known as the “the most famous artist you’ve never heard of.” Don’t miss Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty’s documentary on the eccentric painter/sculptor/musician when it screens this weekend at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood in Webster Groves). Foulkes enjoyed fame and critical attention almost immediately upon dropping out of Los Angeles’ Chouinard Art Institute in 1959. But in the ensuing decades, he slipped into obscurity by refusing to duplicate his popular successes (particularly his rocky landscape paintings of the 1960s, and the “bloody head” portraits he turned to in the ’70s) or “play the game,” as he puts it,...
80-year old, L.A.-based artist Llyn Foulkes has refused to define his career within the rigid expectations of the art world and is known as the “the most famous artist you’ve never heard of.” Don’t miss Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty’s documentary on the eccentric painter/sculptor/musician when it screens this weekend at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood in Webster Groves). Foulkes enjoyed fame and critical attention almost immediately upon dropping out of Los Angeles’ Chouinard Art Institute in 1959. But in the ensuing decades, he slipped into obscurity by refusing to duplicate his popular successes (particularly his rocky landscape paintings of the 1960s, and the “bloody head” portraits he turned to in the ’70s) or “play the game,” as he puts it,...
- 2/4/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Scientists have speculated about Vincent van Gogh's psychotic episodes, like the one where he cut off his ear, and some believe his underlying conditions of depression and seizures were aggravated by absinthe, nicotine, alcohol, and turpentine.
It's not like anyone featured in the documentary Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band comes out and says that Foulkes is suffering from anything, but the film paints a picture. Foulkes is a relatively well-known painter who missed out on great fame and fortune, possibly because he marched to the beat of his own drum (actually, an entire one-man band of instruments). Foulkes tears down, saws up, and redoes entire sections of his works — for years and years, over and over, even when someone wants to buy one as-is.
At times he s...
It's not like anyone featured in the documentary Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band comes out and says that Foulkes is suffering from anything, but the film paints a picture. Foulkes is a relatively well-known painter who missed out on great fame and fortune, possibly because he marched to the beat of his own drum (actually, an entire one-man band of instruments). Foulkes tears down, saws up, and redoes entire sections of his works — for years and years, over and over, even when someone wants to buy one as-is.
At times he s...
- 5/7/2014
- Village Voice
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