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
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