Margaret Keane
Margaret D. H. Keane was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes.
Background
- Born in
- Nashville
- Educated at
- Traphagen School of Fashion
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Trending topics shown first"I had just announced for the first time publicly on a radio show in San Francisco that I had done all the Keane paintings and not my ex-husband. And this, um, Bill Flang of the San Francisco Examiner…"
"Gradually it dawned on me that I was painting my own inner emotions. Those children were asking: "Why are we here? What is life all about? Why is there sadness and injustice?" All those deep ques…"
"He'd threatened me so many times. I thought he was so crazy he could hire a hit man to come get me anytime."
"I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art, it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it."
"A lot of art today doesn't convey much hope, and I hope mine does. I try to paint what I think the future holds and my innermost feelings about God's promise for the future."
"His art is in heroic bad taste. It's incredibly vulgar, it's weird, but it's still gorgeous. Bad-taste entertainment is the best entertainment. What I really love about Keane is that he is so comme…"
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Timeline
1927
Born
Birth2022
Died
Death
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