Sentences with phrase «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.

Pollock was a desperate, failing artist struggling to survive in New York.

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.

A similar form of ambiguity could be found in Ed Wood, Tim Burton's previous feature, which oddly wound up making a failed artist of the 50s into a 90s hero — a kind of postmodernist transubstantiation that could only be carried out by altering both Wood and the 50s.

While it's a relief that depiction of Tommy Wiseau, failed artist, and The Room, his failed art, isn't a sneering bad - movie podcast come to life, it's also disappointing to see the movie slip into a routine of easy jokes and easier outs.

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Winning the award for the New York Magazine senior art critic was his essay «My Life as a Failed Artist» that described how his failure at being an artist pushed him to become an art critic.

His winning article, published in Vulture last April, was «My Life as a Failed Artist».

«The fictitious Lester Hayes character provided us an opportunity to address and maybe complicate the notion of the «failed artist» through the thorny lens of race, at a very specific moment in time, the height of the Black Arts movement,» Triple Candie's Shelly Bancroft told me.

For some, he is simply a failed artist; for others, he laid the groundwork for German modernism.

That's the good thing about being a failed artist.

I could be a failing artist — that would be fun.

But that's why I would be a failing artist.