Andrew Wyeth
(July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009) |
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landscapes, portraiture Art Work
| Name: |
Andrew Wyeth |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Chadds Ford, PA, USA |
| Nationality: |
American |
| Birth: |
July 12, 1917 |
| Death: |
January 16, 2009 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
landscapes, portraiture |
| Medium: |
watercolour, egg tempera |
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| Style: |
Realism, Regionalism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
Born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Andrew Wyeth was the youngest child of artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Under the guidance of his father, Andrew learned to draw and paint in watercolour. From his father, Andrew also inherited a great love of the landscape and especially the scenes of his hometown, which would become a hallmark of his artistic career.
The painter spent most of his life in Pennsylvania, and the majority of his paintings feature the people and places around him. Wyeth produced many portraits of his family and neighbors set against the backdrop of the natural landscape. The most famous of each is perhaps the painting Christina's World, which depicts the artist's neighbor Christina Olson lying in the field before her house where she spent most of her time due to her inability to walk. Wyeth also frequently painted another of his neighbors, a Prussian immigrant Helga Testorf, ultimately producing a collection of 247 studies of the woman.
Critically, Wyeth's work has been controversial. The artist's realism stands in contrast to the Abstract movement that was popular during much of his career. Some have criticized his paintings as formulaic, illustrative, and overly sentimental. Others, however, laud Wyeth's work as strongly emotional with underlying abstraction. |
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