Andrew Wyeth|Wyeth's Art|Book Illustration
Andrew Wyeth-Artist-Illustrator
Art was in his blood. Andrew Wyeth. son of N C Wyeth, father of James Wyeth, passed away January 16, 2009. Andrew Wyeth was a probably most noted for his painting, "Christina's World".
From the New York Times:
"Andrew Wyeth, Famed and Infamous Artist, Dies at 91"
by Michael Kimmelman
" Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists from tiny Chadds Ford, Penn., whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of national culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art, has died at his home in suburban Philadelphia, The Associated Press reported."
Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/arts/design/17wy...
RIP Mr. Wyeth, you will be missed yet not forgotten. Thank you for all your glorious artwork.
I first came across Andrew Wyeth's artwork when I read an article in a magazine about "The Helga Pictures". Falling in love with his work I bought the book and have several others of his as well as Jamie Wyeth (son) and NC Wyeths (father) work. Amazing family!
Born July 12, 1917 (age 90)
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation Realist painter
Wyeth's favorite subject is the land and inhabitants around his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and those near his summer home in Cushing, Maine. His most famous work, and one of the most well-known images in 20th century American art, is Christina's World (1948), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Official website: http://www.andrewwyeth.com/
TURN ON THE MUSIC
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TURN ON THE MUSIC as you enjoy my lens.
"In The Early Morning Rain" was originally written by Gordon Lightfoot. He sings some 'wonderful' songs but I have always liked Peter, Paul and Mary's version of this song best.
I chose this song for this lens about Andrew Wyeth because of his love of nature and wide open fields. If you listen to this song... be sure to imagine smelling wildflowers in the Spring and the smell of a late April rain.
I posted my favorite cd of Gordon Lightfoots below as well. 'smile'.
Aloha,
Kathy
The lyrics:
"Early Morning Rain"
by Gordon Lightfoot
In the early mornin' rain
With a dollar in my hand
And an aching in my heart
And my -pockets full of sand
I'm a long ways from home
And I missed my loved one so
In the early mornin' rain
With no place to go
Out on runway number nine
Big 707 set to go
Well I?m out here on the grass
Where the pavement never grows
Where the liquor tasted good
And the women all were fast
There she goes my friend
She's rolling out at last
Hear the mighty engines roar
See the silver wing on high
She's away and westward bound
For above the clouds she flies
Where the mornin' rain don't fall
And the sun always shines
She'll be flying over my home
In about three hours time
This ol' airport?s got me down
It's no earthly good to me
'Cause I?m stuck here on the ground
Cold and drunk as I might be
Can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I best be on my way
In the early mornin' rain
So I best be on my way
In the early mornin' rain
So I best be on my way
In the early mornin' rain
"Early Morning Rain" cd is listed further down the page.
Great Andrew Wyeth Stuff
Andrew Wyeth Quotes
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
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I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace ~~
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.
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I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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The only virtue to it, is to put down an idea about what you feel at the moment.
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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
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To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walk
"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth
I Want to Believe There Are Good and Honest Men and Women
In Andrew Wyeth's work I sense so much honesty and his work to me has extreme integrity, thus I offer this poem in that spirit:
"I Want to Believe There Are Good and Honest Men and Women"
Somewhere
somehow
I want to believe
there are
good things
honest men
honest women
who can say
without prejudice
THIS is what I believe
and THIS is just.
THIS is the truth
and it stands tall
beyond any darkened skyline
of predetermined
faults.
I want to believe in good people.
They are out there
you know it
and ohhh...
I do too!
So blacken out that stinking gloom
no room for that kind of stuff
pack up your sad tune
and lover
baby
lets get past that stuff
and get the hell
out of there/here/where!
Get past all that BAD
jeer!
Clear?
Lets fly
that high.
Lets decide
from where it comes
and just how far
we can without question
if we really want to
run toward the good stuff
where honesty
is not just spoken
but because of its brilliance
just
GLOWS!
Fun?
Hell yes!
So put it all to your own
the world is actually great
test.
Make a pact with a best friend
and if you ain't got one
no need
I have never had one
either
so honey at this moment?
YOU and ME babe!
CHEER!!
Let change the world's thinking
one thought
one trying to do what we can
at the moment
plan
just by saying a simple
"Hi"
to a neighbor
in our
back yards
or saying hi
to a potential
GREEN friend.
No matter love
is draggin
lets tame that stupid ass nagging
that
where would you be without me
stuff
be your own hero
best friend
dove
of the worlds love.
Every single thing
in life
is tested with strife
So we get that
right?
or just for fun
has a certain predictability
see?
And that thing is
people can decide
create a minds eye
or not
make that plot
ring true
what YOU
will PERSONALLY do!
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The IMAGE is of my sculpture "Bleeding Wings 5"
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Quick, what do you think of Andrew Wyeth?
Beautiful by Gordon Lightfoot
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Enjoy this song, the beauty of life, which is what Andrew Wyeth painted.
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"Beautiful" Lyrics
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot (Buy Gordon Lightfoot CDs)
Album: Beautiful
At times I just don't know
How you could be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me
And I know that I won't ever change
We've been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time
Laughing eyes and smiling face
It seems so lucky just to have the right
Of telling you with all my might
You're beautiful tonight
And I know that you won't ever stray
Cause you've been that way from day to day
For such a long, long time
And when you hold me tight
How could life be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me
And I know that I won't ever change
We've been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time
Well, I must say it means so much to me
To be the one who's telling you
I'm telling you, that you're beautiful.
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Peter, Paul and Mary & Gordon Lightfoot cds
Title: Braids, 1979 by Andrew Wyeth
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