‘Paint' Finds the Joy of Kitsch
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2023-04-10 20:30
‘Paint' Finds the Joy of Kitsch
Bob Ross was a populist in the elitist 'art world.' Not for him abstraction, much less the conceptual art that demands a safecracker to decode. He preferred landscapes to soup cans and painted live on public television for many years, inspiring generations of weekenders to pick up the brush. His artwork conveyed no message except the joy he—and millions—found in rendering and recognizing 'naturalistic' scenes from nature. Writer-director Brit McAdams'  Paint  is a fictional story inspired by the Ross persona.

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