Beauty Is Embarrassing

Beauty Is Embarrassing

88 mins | Documentary | Sept. 7, 2012

Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.

Beauty Is Embarrassing

88 mins | Documentary | Sept. 7, 2012

Beauty Is Embarrassing
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Tremolo Productions
Original title Beauty Is Embarrassing
Directors Neil Berkeley
Writers Chris Bradley

Cast

Wayne White

as Himself

Mimi Pond

as Herself

Woodrow White

as Himself

Lulu White

as Herself

Gary Panter

as Himself

Mark Mothersbaugh

as Himself

Ric Heitzman

as Himself

Billie June White

as Herself

Willis White

as Himself