Although he is lesser known as a painter, the “Creed” star has had his expressionistic work exhibited in museums like the Nice Museum of Contemporary Art in France, and his paintings have been sold in fine art galleries.
Before “Rocky” won the Oscar for best picture in 1977, Stallone painted a portrait of a boxer that was his inspiration to write the screenplay. He was also nominated that year for an Academy Award for his writing and acting.
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“I made a self-portrait with a more defined ‘pug face’ than I had back then, but to capture his sadness, I switched the brush with a screwdriver and carved the eyes,” he told Artnet News in 2021 of the “Rocky” painting.
On his StalloneArtwork Instagram page he wrote, “I painted this in 1974, before I wrote the script for Rocky, because I wanted to have a mental image of him in my mind, so this is the way I pictured him at the time…The eyes tell the story…”
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Billionaire Steve Wynn has one of the “Rambo” star’s “Rocky” paintings in his collection, according to ArtNet.
Stallone told the outlet he was inspired by idolized figures like Hercules.
The “Rambo” actor has been painting for decades, even before he became famous for “Rocky.” (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
“Both in art and film, I looked at figures like Spartacus or Hercules who radiated hyper-reality through their hyper-masculinity,” he said.
The “Expendables” star once said he thinks he’s a “much better painter than an actor.”
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“It’s much more personal, and I’m allowed to just do what I want to do,” he revealed on his website. “Quite often in acting you have to play a certain part. You cannot speak as much as you want to speak.”