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Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)

Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)

Documentary
Release Date: 2012, September 7
Directors: Neil Berkeley
Countries: United States of America
Production: Tremolo Productions, Eddie Schmidt Productions, Future You Pictures
Cast: Paul Reubens, Wayne White, Mimi Pond, Lulu White, Gary Panter, Ric Heitzman, Billie June White, Willis White

Overview:

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 designing 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.