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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wyeth is not influenced by other artists' work; he rarely visits galleries, is wholly unaffected by "trends." He is in a sense one of the most isolated of America's top artists, yet his appeal is universal. Whether realists or abstractionists, artists admire him; he casts a spell over layman and sophisticate alike. His paintings, so static at first glance, are charged with emotion; his surface realism is a window to a higher reality beyond...
...Wyeth spell will be in full operation next week when Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery opens the largest (143 items) Wyeth exhibition ever held. In all his work, whether drawing, watercolor or tempera, there is no mistaking the impeccable technique, no ignoring the tense, if quiet, drama being played out within every frame. The America that Wyeth paints is only superficially the America of today; basically, it is a timeless place with timeless preoccupations. The long, long past of man and his earth is implicit in every Wyeth painting: his trees seem weighted by memories, his rooms...
Expanding this example to describe the situation in the country he continued: "These two tracks of experience in the same nation can spell disaster, for the Negro knows more about the white man than the white man knows about himself. It often happens that white people come to me just to talk about their problems. What they are really saying is: 'How can I become a person? In some way you've managed to stay outside the system. You're still walking...
...mawkish. Robinson himself turned out a few canvases with titles such as A Canine Patient and A Rail Fence Flirtation, but he did not tolerate that kind of "potboiling" for long. He first went to France when he was only 24, and there he gradually fell under the spell of the new painters. Though the paintings of his good friend Monet made him "blue with envy." he took away only a fresh appreciation of light and color, which added to his traditional realism rather than replacing...
...vertebrate. I never appreciated it before, but I do now. I believe I'm right in congratulating you. Just remember that we're both vertebrates and we've got to stick together. Keep an eye on them now-all of them. I'll spell you in the morning...