The artist gazing into the abyss

Kayleigh 2022-08-09 17:25:42

He is a true artist. The rare biographical film, perhaps because of his character and the dark style that he has always adhered to in his works, allowed him to allow his inner darkness to be recorded by the camera and open to the public. We can also see his painful childhood and the emptiness and emptiness in his heart. On the good side, he can draw inspiration from the abyss in his heart and transform it into comics and paintings to express it, and at the same time re-examine himself in the process; on the bad side, he can continue to create It means to always stare into the abyss of oneself, risking being swallowed at any time. In the film, we can also see how much the original family has had on the growth of people. It can be said that it is an accident that the three boys have all deviated from the right way recognized by the world, and the responsibility obviously lies with the parents.

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  • Robert Crumb: When I listen to old music it's one of the few times I actually have a kind of a love for humanity. You hear the best part of the soul of the common people, you know, it's their way of expressing their connection to eternity or whatever you want to call it. Modern music doesn't have that, it's a calamitous loss that people can't express themselves that way anymore.

  • Robert Crumb: One time my brother Charles brought this thing back from the dump, it was this beautiful wooden truck, this ice cream truck made out of wood. I wanted that thing really bad and he wouldn't let me touch it or anything, he was real spiteful that way. So I made a big fuss and I told my mother and she said "Charles, let him play with that when you're through" and then he said OK. So about 15 minutes later he came in the house and said "OK, Robert, I'm through, you can play with it now." So I ran outside and he had smashed it to smithereens against the wall of the house.

    [he laughs]