“They were considered suburban art - people had Keanes in their offices or living rooms, not Picassos or Matisses. “I grew up in the era when those paintings were very present,” says Burton. The process by which Walter did exactly that - and turned the miscredited paintings into some of the best-known pop art in American history - is the subject of Tim Burton’s new movie, “Big Eyes,” in which Amy Adams plays Margaret and Christoph Waltz, Walter. I couldn’t bear the thought that he would take them away.”
They were so close to me I identified with them so much. “I said, ‘Don’t do this again!’ Those paintings were a part of me. “Well, I was horrified,” Margaret, 87, tells The Post. She seemed to have found the perfect man - until one day she discovered he’d let someone think one of her paintings was his. “He could have sold anybody anything.”īefore long, he had proposed and they were living together, along with Margaret’s young daughter Jane.
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He just had so much charisma,” she says of Walter, who praised her paintings of waiflike children with disproportionately large eyes (“the windows to the soul,” she told him when he asked about them). “He was the most charming person you’d ever meet. When aspiring artist Margaret Ulbrich left an unhappy marriage in the early 1950s and fled from Tennessee to California, she couldn’t believe her luck when she met a free-spirited fellow painter named Walter Keane.
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