Книга: Andrew Wyeth «Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography»
A study of six decades of paintings by the American artist, Andrew Wyeth. The book includes comments by Wyeth about each painting, made in interviews with Thomas Hoving, that offer insights into the artist's life and art. Издательство: "Bulfinch" (1999) Формат: 280x250, 168 стр.
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Andrew Wyeth
Infobox Person
name = Andrew Wyeth
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birth_date = birth date and age|1917|7|12
birth_place = Chadds Ford,
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = Realist painter
Andrew Newell Wyeth (born
Wyeth's favorite subject is the land and inhabitants around his hometown of Chadds Ford,
Childhood/Early career
Andrew was the youngest of the five children of N. C. and Carolyn Bockius Wyeth. He was home-tutored because of his frail health, and learned art from his father. Both shared a love for rural landscape, a sense of romance, and a feeling for Wyeth family history. [’’An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, Boston, 1987, Little Brown & Company, ISBN 0-8212-1652-X, p.33] Andrew started drawing at a young age, and with his father’s guidance, he mastered figure study and watercolor, and later learned egg tempera from brother-in-law
In 1937 at age twenty, he had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at
Father's death 1940s
In 1940, Wyeth married Betsy James and in 1943 the Wyeths had their first child Nicholas, followed by James ("Jamie") three years later. Andrew painted portraits of both Jamie and Betsy. In October 1945, Andrew Wyeth's father and his three-year-old nephew, Newell Convers Wyeth II (b. 1941), were killed when their car stalled on railroad tracks near their home and was struck by a train. Wyeth has referred to his father's death as a formative emotional event in his artistic career, in addition to being a personal tragedy. [’’An American Vision’’, p.42] It was shortly after this that Wyeth's art consolidated into his mature and enduring style, characterized by a subdued color palette, realistic renderings, and the depiction of emotionally charged symbolic objects.
In 1948, Wyeth began painting Anna and Karl Kuerner, neighbors of the Wyeths in Chadds Ford. It was at the Olsen farm in 1948 that he painted "Christina’s World", his famous image of crippled Christina Olsen yearning for her home. Like the Olsons in Maine, the Kuerners and their farm became one of Wyeth's most important subjects for nearly 30 years. The Kuerners' farm is now available to tour through the Brandywine River Museum as is the N.C. Wyeth home and studio.
Wyeth stated about the Kuerner Farm, “I didn’t think it a picturesque place. It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally”. [’’An American Vision’’, p.120]
Mature career
Dividing his time between Pennsylvania and Maine, Wyeth has maintained a realist painting style for over fifty years. He gravitates to several identifiable landscape subjects and models. In 1958, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth purchased and restored “The Mill”, a group of 18th century buildings which appeared often in his work, including "Night Sleeper" (1979). His solitary walks are the primary means of inspiration for his landscapes. He develops an extraordinary intimacy with the land and sea and strives for a spiritual understanding based on history and unspoken emotion. He typically creates dozens of studies on a subject in pencil or loosely brushed watercolor before executing a finished painting, either in watercolor,
When Christina Olsen died in the winter of 1969, Wyeth re-focused his artistic attention upon Siri Erickson, capturing her naked innocence in "Indian Summer" (1970). It was a prelude to the Helga paintings.
Helga pictures
In 1986, extensive coverage was given to the revelation of a series of 247 studies of Wyeth's neighbor, the Prussian-born Helga Testorf, painted over the period 1971–1985 without the knowledge of either Wyeth's wife or John Testorf, Helga's husband. Helga is a musician, baker, and caregiver, and friend of the Wyeths. She met Wyeth when she was attending to Karl Kuerner. She had never modeled before but quickly became comfortable with the long periods of posing during which she was observed and painted in intimate detail. The Helga pictures are not an obvious psychological study of the subject but more of an extensive study of her physical landscape set within Wyeth's customary landscapes. She is nearly always unsmiling and passive, yet within those deliberate limitations, Wyeth manages to convey subtle qualities of character and mood, as he does in many of his best portraits. This extensive study of one subject studied in differing contexts and emotional states is unique in American art. [’’An American Vision’’, p.123]
In 1986, millionaire Leonard E. B. Andrews purchased the entire collection, preserving it intact.
The works were exhibited at the
Critical reaction
Wyeth's art has long been controversial. As a representational artist, Wyeth's paintings have sharply contrasted with abstraction that gained currency in American art in the middle of the 20th century.
Museum exhibitions of Wyeth's paintings have set attendance records, but many art critics have been critical of his work.
Admirers of Wyeth's art believe that his paintings, in addition to sometimes displaying overt beauty, contain strong emotional currents, symbolic content, and underlying abstraction. Most observers of Wyeth's art agree that he is skilled at handling the mediums of watercolor and egg tempera (which uses egg yolk as a medium). Wyeth has avoided using traditional oil paints. His use of light and shadow let the subjects illuminate the canvas. His paintings and titles suggest sound, as is implied in many paintings including "Distant Thunder" (1961) and "Spring Fed" (1967). [’’An American Vision’’, p.121]
Museum collections
Andrew Wyeth is in the collections of most major American museums, including The
Honors and awards
Wyeth has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Most recently, Wyeth received the 2007
Influence on Pop Culture
Wyeth was often referenced by cartoonist
Tom Duffield, the production designer for the American remake of The Ring, drew inspiration from Wyeth's paintings for the look of the film.
References
ee also
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Further reading
*Meryman, R.: "Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life", HarperCollins 1996. ISBN 0-06-017113-8.
*Wyeth, A.: "Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography", Bulfinch Press 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2217-1.
Galleries online
* [http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=239 Andrew Wyeth at MuseumSyndicate]
* [http://www.birdsnest.com/awyeth.htm birdsnest.com - Andrew Wyeth]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/18173/andrew-wyeth.html Artnet - Andrew Wyeth]
* [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78455"Christina's World"] in the MoMA Online Collection
External links
* [http://www.andrewwyeth.com/ Andrew Wyeth's website]
* [http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/ Brandywine River Museum]
* [http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/ Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center]
* [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/june/wyeth.php Smithsonian Magazine Article on Andrew Wyeth]
Источник: Andrew Wyeth
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