Reese Witherspoon And Ryan Reynolds, What BIG EYES You Have!

January 23, 2012RamaNo Comments, ,

Hollywood Reporter said Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds are attached to star in BIG EYES based on the true story of Margaret and Walter Keane who came up with the popular large-eyes paintings
Witherspoon plays Margaret, the true talent and Reynolds plays Walter who claimed credit for her work..

Here’s a bit on the artist Margaret Keane via Wikipedia..

“Margaret D. H. Keane was born 1927 in Tennessee, a state in the Bible Belt. Margaret herself attributes her deep respect for the Bible and inspirations of her artwork to the relationship with her grandmother. She eventually became one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which she said changed her life for the better.[1]
In the 1960s, Margaret Keane’s artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane. Why she chose to do so has not been fully explained, but conflict over that issue was cited as one of the reasons they divorced. Neither wanting to relinquish rights to the artwork, Walter and Margaret’s divorce proceedings went all the way to Federal court. At the hearing, Margaret created a painting in front of the judge to prove that she was the artist. Walter declined to paint before the court, citing a sore shoulder. In 1986, the courts sided with her, enabling her to paint under her own name.
Her works while living in her husband’s shadow tended to depict sad children in a dark setting, but after divorcing, moving to Hawaii, and becoming one of Jehovah’s Witnesses her paintings took on a happier, brighter style. Her website now advertises her work as having “tears of joy” or “tears of happiness”.”

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