Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted... (Full plot summary below)
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Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
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| New York TimesAndy WebsterThe creativity grows like kudzu in Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley's enlightening and often hilarious portrait of the Los Angeles artist Wayne White. And it yields a thousand blossoms. |
| Detroit NewsTom Long"Beauty Is Embarrassing" is an undeniably likable film, mainly because White is a likable guy who believes comedy is at least as important as tragedy. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereUsing animation, CGI and stop-motion, and mixing analog and digital video, director Berkeley transforms 'Beauty Is Embarrassing' into a White-inspired but Berkeley made work of pop-folk art |
| Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianNeil Berkeley's documentary is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White's creative juices that it makes you want to go straight home and start making things. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamA vivid, fluorescent-colored portrait of a sane man possessed with insane creativity. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayBeauty Is Embarrassing stays true to White's own exacting standards: It's thoughtful, skillfully executed and pure pop pleasure, from start to finish. |
| Toronto StarLinda BarnardThe doc meanders occasionally, but we're grateful when it comes back to White and his creations. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisThough the movie isn't wildly original, its time-tested, artistic mantra of "just go out there and do it" is hard to resist. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeThose with a high tolerance for the ultimate four-letter word, and a love for eccentrics, will be entertained by both White and his art. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAs one observer here aptly - and non-hyperbolically - sums it up, White is "a founding father of the current state of pop art." |
