Art Homage Andrew Wyeth Abandoned 1930's farm house Near Aberdeen South Dakota 1965-2012 Metal Print
by David Lee Guss
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Art Homage Andrew Wyeth Abandoned 1930's farm house Near Aberdeen South Dakota 1965-2012 metal print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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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... more
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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," wh...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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Shannon Andrews
Congratulations!
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 .