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Fluffily hyped, Andrew Wyeth' s Helga pictures go on view at the National Gallery and prove to be too much of a medium- good thing...
WHAT THE HELGA?? was the headline on the New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley's story about last summer's convulsions over Andrew Wyeth. The question stands. Never in the history of American art had a group of paintings been so fluffily hyped. Rarely in the history of cultural journalism had magazines and newspapers that one might have expected to be fairly hard-nosed about such matters -- TIME, Newsweek, the New York Times and so on across the nation -- made so much of so little...
Pointing to one print on his wall, Pippert explains, "David Roberts [the picture's artist] is to the Middle East what Andrew Wyeth is to this country." In the midst of rare maps from the 1800s and bookshelves filled with volumes on Israeli politics, Pippert says that absorbing the culture of the Middle East was one of the perks of his two-year foreign assignment...
...eyes. Mzungu is Swahili for white man. The visitor feels the chill of a savage attention. At last the Polaroid develops itself fully. The lion turns and lies in full view, spreading the beige grass and lying precisely in the posture of the woman in the grass in Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World. The grasses in Wyeth's dream and the grasses garnishing the lion have the same color and texture. But whereas Wyeth's Christina was crippled and lay in an unforgettable posture of longing, of groping, the lion, his hindquarters lazing off on one side...
...Wyeth's disclosure, tucked unobtrusively into the fourth paragraph of the magazine's story, created hardly a ripple. It was exactly a year, and the September 1986 issue of Art & Antiques, before the import of Wyeth's remarks became strikingly clear. The closing of the circle came last April, when Schaire was visiting Pennsylvania for another story and met with Peter Ralston, a photographer and friend of the Wyeths'. Ralston told him to get in the car, he had a "surprise" to show him. An hour later, Schaire was poring over the 240 works that are now the talk...