How to Draw a Bunny

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Howard M Anyone who thinks writing about a little girl choking to death is an asshole. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/16/23 Full Review Audience Member A great film about art with a beautiful little suicidal (?) note at the end. Arthur Millers take note: This is how a man swims offstage if he must! When drawing bunnies or making any art, it's important to know who you are as an artist. Are you a Courtney Love, who attacks a teenager for their album art because Love is no longer relevant and is upset about that? Or are you Elvis Costello, who recognizes he's just one thief in a long list of thieves who pillaged Chuck Berry's work for pay, so Olivia Rodrigo can certainly do that too? Do you forgive the thieves like yourself, or do you try to punish them like Love to keep your own work in the news? Each are artistic strategies, only you can know your karma. Let's take it back to the Bible, shall we? No one likes the beginning where we learn the history of the Tree of Creation or Beget--as Blah beget Blah beget Blah goes on page after page. If you are bored by this list of progenitors, we can definitely put an end to such pop culture progenitors as well, because (fart sounds) SHARE AIR YOU MOTHERF$%KERS! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Even the people they asked to talk in this documentary didn't know the guy. Sorry people I was not impressed. Very tedious and non interesting and I like the idea of this guys art but I don't know If I'm a fan of his work. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Ray Johnson made art, he did his thing, he had a creative surplus of ideas flowing in his noggin, he wasn't focused on fame or money, he found joy in expressing himself in mostly unlucrative mediums. He had a lot of personality, he carried himself as a wonder. This documentary covers all that, pulling dead talent out of obscurity, for a collage artist reborn from the ashes of infamy, featuring this, that and Warhol, during the pop art days in New York. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member While the work of Ray Johnson seems very interesting, and his death enigmatic, I'm having trouble making it through this documentary. The thing is, Johnson was so reclusive and enigmatic, that nobody has much to offer about him other than variations of "I didn't really know the guy but he sent me this really cool postcard once." I think I would be better served with a book of his artwork than this so-far static documentary. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Limited audience biopic. To the extent anything about abstract artist Ray Johnson lends itself to the description "straight-forward", "How to Draw a Bunny" is a straight-forward documentary about the man's life. The films spends some time on building mystery over Johnson's eventual suicide at 62 but the mystery turns out to be a little less surprising than the ending of "Titanic". Otherwise the documentary traces Johnson's life from childhood through the growth of his reputation in the abstract art community presenting mostly unknown contemporaries with the exception of Christo and his wife Jean-Claude. These friends, fellow artists and others can give little insight into understanding Johnson's remote collages or his unusual behavior. Ultimately, whether you enjoy the film depends on whether you find an interest in Johnson 's art and life which limits the audience for the film severely. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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