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Title: Weak
Review: I'm a Beatles freak, and fan of McCartney through them, and I tried to see some merit in these paintings. But they bite. McCartney does not have artistic talent. A celebrity painting makes one groan anyway. But I had to admit after viewing Anthony Quinn's paintings and Tony Bennett's paintings, that they were actually quite good. (Even Tony Curtis's paintings aren't bad, in a hotel-room-art kind of way.) McCartney doesn't have it. And the interview with McCartney in front of the book is pretty bland. So the book isn't even worth getting for that. Of all the talented artists alive now who will die unknown, and here's an untalented artist getting national exposure. Oh, well, that's art and commerce in the age of celebrity. McCartney is a talented MUSICAL artist, of course, and should not have strayed from that.
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