Art Homage Andrew Wyeth Abandoned 1930's farm house Near Aberdeen South Dakota 1965-2012
by David Lee Guss
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Art Homage Andrew Wyeth Abandoned 1930's farm house Near Aberdeen South Dakota 1965-2012
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Another contemporary artist of Ted's was Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) the son of renowned illustrator N.C. Wyeth. And like Norman Rockwell, Wyeth has garnered a mixed critical reaction.
Unlike Ted's use of oil in his painting, Wyeth employed egg tempera which uses egg yolk.
The year before his death Wyeth commented about criticism: "People only make you swerve. I won't show anybody anything I'm working on. If they hate it, it's a bad thing, and if they like it, it's a bad thing. An artist has to be ingrown to be any good."
"N.C. advised Wyeth to work from one's own perspective and imagination; to work for 'effect' means the artist is not fully exploring their artistic abilities and as a result the artist will not realize their potential."
Wyeth's works are in most of the major U.S. museums. He considered himself a abstractionist, not a realist.
Movies strongly influenced him especially King Vidor's (1894-1982) 1925 silent "The Big Parade," which he claimed to have seen 180 times.
"The film's director Vidor later made a documentary, "Metaphor" (1980) where he and Wyeth discuss the influence of the film on his paintings, including "Winter 1946," "Snow Flurries," "Portrait of Ralph Kline" and "Afternoon Flight of a Boy up a Tree.""
{Note: I met King Vidor in Sun Valley, Idaho in July 1976 during a Bicentennial celebration of Western films. And I sat in front of him and historian Arthur Knight when Vidor's "Man Without a Star" (1955), starring the ageless Kirk Douglas, was screened.}
This rural South Dakota snow scene is Andrew Wyeth Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania country.
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."...William Blake (1757-1827)
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do."...Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
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Janine Riley
Fascinating old home and portrayal of wisps of a memory that what was once in time . I could spend hours at the periphery of this home daydreaming of life that danced in and around this homestead. The legends passed down and the descendants that went forward. Congrats. to you on this very fine capture .