{"id":52651,"date":"2018-08-05T00:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T22:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/05\/orson-welles-actor-director-painter\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T00:55:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T22:55:52","slug":"orson-welles-actor-director-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52651","title":{"rendered":"Orson Welles: actor, director\u2026 painter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great film-maker was also a fine artist. His rarely seen images feature in a film by lifelong fan Mark Cousins, who tells here of finding treasures that reveal a whole new Citizen Welles\u2022 Click here to see a gallery of Orson Welles\u2019s art\u2018I am essentially a hack, a commercial person,\u201d Orson Welles once said. \u201cIf I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.\u201d Self-deprecation aside, this most creatively ambitious and restless of US directors was hardly a hack. Welles did have a hobby, though \u2013 one he never abandoned or monetised, and one that is now shedding fresh light on a mighty career.For in private, the great man worked quietly as an artist \u2013 yielding a vast, varied collection of paintings, drawings and doodles that has rarely been given serious scrutiny. That output is the subject of The Eyes of Orson Welles, a whimsical documentary by film critic, historian and lifelong Welles devotee Mark Cousins. An exhibition of the artworks, on which Cousins advised, is also now running at Edinburgh\u2019s Summerhall galleries. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/aug\/04\/orson-welles-artist-mark-cousins-interview\" target=\"_blank\">Orson Welles: actor, director\u2026 painter?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great film-maker was also a fine artist. His rarely seen images feature in a film by lifelong fan Mark Cousins, who tells here of finding treasures that reveal a whole new Citizen Welles\u2022 Click here to see a gallery of Orson Welles\u2019s art\u2018I am essentially a hack, a commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}