The Barefoot Artist

Name: The Barefoot Artist
Genre: Biography, History, Family, Documentary
Released: December 5, 2014
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 57

2014

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Paladin | Release Date: December 5, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: The Barefoot Artist traces Lily Yeh's evolution as an artist – from her first exposure to Chinese landscape painting as a young girl in China to the hauntingly beautiful memorial she designed to honor the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It shows her methodology for community building – using art as the foundation – which she hasThe Barefoot Artist traces Lily Yeh's evolution as an artist – from her first exposure to Chinese landscape painting as a young girl in China to the hauntingly beautiful memorial she designed to honor the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It shows her methodology for community building – using art as the foundation – which she has developed over many years as she has worked in impoverished communities around the world. Finally, it reveals the source of her quest, and the personal costs of a life committed to the public.… Expand

Director: Daniel Traub and Glenn Holsten

Genre(s): Biography, History, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Dec 17, 2014

A poignant documentary about the transformative power of art. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Dec 4, 2014

We get very little sense of her personal life... Nor do we get much insight into the evolution of her art, which looks fascinating in the glimpses afforded, but is viewed primarily in terms of community art therapy, rather than appreciated as an aesthetic end value in itself. Though these omissions frustrate a bit in retrospect, The Barefoot Artist is nonetheless an engrossing watch. Read full review

Andy Webster

Dec 4, 2014

Mr. Holsten, was a maker of the winning 2012 documentary “OC87,” a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. His gift for portraiture shows only further refinement here. Read full review

Kate Erbland

Dec 4, 2014

Yeh’s charm and compelling story keep things moving along, even as the documentary struggles to find the kind of evocative creativity that she conjures up with her own work. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Dec 2, 2014

The Barefoot Artist, co-directed by Yeh's own son, veers too close to hagiography, and as a result makes Yeh look not so much like a well-meaning global citizen as a bona fide saint. Read full review

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EpicLadySponge

Apr 2, 2016

They just keep trying, man. They just keep trying, dawgs. I know you would love to create art barefoot so we put something about an aritst making art barefoot while you can enjoy something barefoot.

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