Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes seems as if the U.S. art world will tear itself apart with all its cliques and cults, but there is one artist whose extraordinary vision keeps him well above the battle. Painter Andrew 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...
...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...
...Private Walden. Henry Thoreau, summing up his own experience of the world, wrote. "I have traveled a good deal in Concord.'' Like Thoreau. Andrew Wyeth detests the idea of venturing beyond his own familiar Walden. He has traveled a good deal in Chadds Ford, Pa., where he spends his winters, and in rugged Port Clyde, Me., where he goes in summer...
...father, the noted illustrator N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, originally settled in Chadds Ford to study with Howard Pyle. When young Andy showed signs of talent in his early teens, his father began to teach him every secret of technique he knew, but he never sought to impose his own style. "My father," says Wyeth, "was a great teacher because he would never talk about how he would do anything. He would always talk about the object and the quality of that object. He might make you see the depth of the object, not how it should be painted...
...became ill after only three months of the first grade, and since the debilitating lung ailment persisted, he never went back to school at all. He could scarcely read until he was 14, still has to depend on his wife to extricate him from his lawless spelling. N. C. Wyeth was delighted to have his son at home on the ground that "no great artist ever went to college." Year after year, Andy's talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today, Wyeth commands the highest...