| Born : 1917 USA
Andrew Wyeth, born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, is the son of the talented
illustrator N. C.Wyeth. Fragile
as a child, young Wyeth received his art training from his father, who
taught him the precision of line and accuracy of drawing that make his
work technically excellent. His color is always subdued-often subtly monochromatic.
His earliest work, done in 1929 when he was twelve, is pen and ink, precise
and delicate in line, elegant in style in the best tradition of illustration.
Wyeth then turned to the use of pencil and colored washes, then to watercolor
drawings. At the age of sixteen, influenced by Winslow Homer, he was creating
bold impressions of light, tone, and movement. Wyeth then disciplined his
natural talent in order to present "the truth of the object." To achieve
his aim, he experimented with various media, finally settling on "drybrush"
watercolor and egg tempera painting, learning the latter technique from
his brother-in-law Peter Hurd. These media require both time and patience,
and Wyeth did not choose them lightly. A finished painting is often the
result of many months of work. Final selection of a treatment is frequently
accomplished only after many pen-and-ink drawings have been done of his
subjects. Wyeth chooses his landscape subjects from two areas, Chadd's
Ford and Cushing, Maine, the places he loves best and in which he personally
is most deeply involved. He paints also the people he knows well. He does
not, however, paint as if he were using a camera, but brings to his work
the artist's extreme sensitivity, the painter's eye, and the poet's ability
to transcend the moment, to synthesize an entire series of impressions
into a crystallization of associated ideas that goes far beyond simple
realism.
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