New Film ‘PAINT’ Depicts the Underside of Creating Art
To be or not to be—an artist. For anyone who’s ever pursued painting as a career—house painters excluded—you might want to think again. There are enough cliches about the profession to fill MoMA’s walls: “You have to live miserably to be an artist.” “We can’t edit our psyches.” “I’m not a decent human being, I’m an artist.” “We show up late.” There’s more you’ve probably come to easily recognize, but the ones I’ve quoted are all in Michael Walker’s film, PAINT.