Phrases with «failed artist»

Sentences with «failed artist»

  • From 1993 until 1998 a group of Londoners, loosely affiliated to the artworld, would open their post to discover some surprising documents — a crumpled piece of paper; a transcription of the graffiti in the men's toilets at the British Library; an exam paper for failed artists. (whitechapelgallery.org)
  • Pollock was a desperate, failing artist struggling to survive in New York. (theguardian.com)
  • Even the film's potentially disastrous portrayal of a fearsome New York Times theater critic named Tabitha Dickinson, played with vivacious imperiousness by Lindsay Duncan, feels less an example of filmmakers taking swipes at critics (at a bar, Norton's drunken Mike pulls the old «critics are failed artists» routine with her, which she swiftly shoots down) than chastising them for their increasing laziness, which is a backwards way of validating them as artists in their own right. (reverseshot.org)
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