Canadian actor Ryan Gosling is up for an Oscar this weekend for his leading role in much talked - about La La Land, a film about
struggling artists trying to make it big in Hollywood.
Summary:
A struggling artist tries to find solace after his mother passes away in this unique and heartfelt comedy.
I just thought of myself as
a struggling artist trying to get recognition — I wanted to show my work somewhere.
Not exact matches
The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star
struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while
trying to establish himself as an
artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.
WHAT: A week in the life of
struggling folk musician Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), who's
trying to make it as a solo
artist after his former partner commits suicide.
Though he
tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an
artist who is
struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly - friendly Cuban hot dog vendor
Looking for solitude, he packs up his things and moves there only to find unusual friendships developing with local
struggling artist Olivia (Patricia Clarkson)--
trying to overcome a personal tragedy of her own — and Joe (Bobby Cannavale) an overly friendly Cuban hot - dog vendor, desperate for some form of interaction with people.
I'm still
struggling with my muted response to La La Land, to be honest, because I do love musicals, and usually I do gravitate toward the kind of story Damien Chazelle tells: that of aspiring
artists balancing the vagaries of practical living with
trying to pursue their passions.
He spends a good amount of time
trying to find a place to keep the cat until he can return the feline from Greenwich Village, where he and his
struggling artist acquaintances go from couch to couch if they aren't able to afford the rent on some hole of an apartment, to the Upper West Side.
Set during the early 1960s in the middle of the New York folk scene, the movie stars Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis, a
struggling musician
trying to make it as a solo
artist after his former singing partner commits suicide.
People
trying to start out will still be
struggling along like tiny minnows against the flooding tide of existing
artists.
The book details the
struggles of Argentine immigrants
trying to make their living in the US arts and entertainment industry as tango
artists — as performers, teachers, producers, and musicians.
, instead of
trying to work with business coaches or marketing experts who don't understand the reality of what
artists struggle with, and give suggestions that don't make sense in the art marketing world.
That didn't surprise me, because a lot of
artists struggle with
trying to make a living without having to be beholden to big galleries.
I would be interested to
try it at some point, but I'm a newly emerging
artist, and am already
struggling to get value for my art from other people and getting them used to paying for it.
Artists, what do you
struggle with most when
trying to sell your work online?
As the title of show hints,
trying to make painting «new» again is something that all of the
artists are
struggling with; there simply isn't a painting in the show that is easy to digest.
He wasn't a «guru» back then, he was just another
struggling excited
artist trying out one idea after another.
One of the things that was lost post-Warhol is the notion of creative
struggle — of the
artist as someone
trying to make something that resists attempts to achieve it.