Popular Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone has revealed how he used to sell his amateur paintings for $5 to pay for a bus to school.
The Rocky and Rambo actor-turned-artist made the revelation after opening his third museum show in Germany with experimental works by him painted almost 60 years ago
Speaking at the press conference on 4 December, the artist, who turned 75 earlier this year, says he used to buy cheap canvases for $2 and then sell them on for $5. “I had a few left, but I’m sort of embarrassed by [them] because the style was quite different […], so I had them in my closet,” Stallone says. “There was no pretext or scholarly schooling, it was just paint flowing on canvas with a lot of emotion, and they haven’t been seen close to 55-60 years. They’ve been in my closet, so it’s great to take them out.”
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The exhibition spans these early works, which he signed “Mike Stallone”, to paintings made today. Several self-portraits are also included such as Finding Rocky (1975), which predates the movie script and the film.
Although art fueled his cinematic work, for financial reasons, Stallone was forced to choose writing and then acting over painting, quickly making his fortune in the movie industry.
Source: www.theartnewspaper.com
