channeling his outsider memories into his own unique brand of popular art. With “Big Eyes,” his new film opening Christmas Day, Burton has crafted a new odd tale, this one rooted in the recent ...

For art enthusiasts of a certain age, it is a familiar gaze: a tearful tot with eyes as big as saucers, known as a "Keane." They were everywhere in the 1960s, reproduced on postcards, lithographs ...

Tim Burton's latest film tells the true story of a bizarre art fraud case in 1960s America. Walter Keane's paintings of waifs with big tearful eyes were frowned on by art critics, but their huge ...

Who gets to say what art is? Does honest emotion count for more than cold abstraction? If Andy Warhol likes it, does that make it OK? “Big Eyes” toys with some amusing ideas, and that’s enough.

“It took a decade to bring ‘Big Eyes’ to the screen. But her tale of surviving abuse was important. She wanted the world to know the truth about her life and art.” “We’re sad to ...

Dec. 25 (UPI) --The moment that revealed one of the biggest art frauds of the 20th century wasn't planned in advance, artist Margaret Keane, the subject of the new Tim Burton movie Big Eyes told UPI.

She’s just been asked to describe what she felt the first time she saw “Big Eyes,” the new Tim Burton film about her life and her art — paintings of waifish children with weepy saucer eyes ...

Witness "Big Eyes," director Tim Burton's telling of the ... Margaret met Walter at a sidewalk art show in San Francisco, after she had taken her daughter and left her first husband.

Before long, Walter is opening his own gallery; selling countless prints, posters and postcards ... orchestrated flurry of activity, “Big Eyes” doesn’t seem to trust either the factual ...

Keane's images of "big-eyed waifs" were dismissed by art critics but bought in huge volumes ... In 2014, Amy Adams played Margaret in Big Eyes, with Walter - who died in 2000 - portrayed by ...

Tim Burton's latest film tells the true story of a bizarre art fraud case in 1960s America. Walter Keane's paintings of waifs with big tearful eyes were frowned on by art critics, but their huge ...