Andrew Wyeth - Painter Of The People
By Naval Langa
Andrew Wyeth who has recently passed away at the age of 91 was a self-taught artist. It would be proper for me, as a person who has something to do with colours and canvasses, to remember the great painter of our time. Andrew Wyeth started his artistic journey earlier, say from the cradle. Under his father cooperation and guidance he started his artistic journey at very young age. In addition to his family's artistic history, Andrew Wyeth had the inviting rural landscape lying in the surround. He started with drawing and catching the sense of romance from the Renaissance and American artist, he went on painting his watercolours.
Andrew Wyeth had booked a special corner for the poetry of Frost and Thoreau. This poetic attachment, well supported my passion for music, equipped him for creating a near relationship with nature and romance. Known as the “Painter of the people” and for being a realist artist, he had earned much popularity in America and abroad.
The biggest fame for Andrew Wyeth came from the Helga paintings. It's long line of nudes, keeping Helga Testorf, asmodel. For the paintings done during the period running from 1971 to 1985, it is believed that no one knew about the process of the painting going. Neither Andrew's wife not Helga's husband knew about Helga acting as model for the Wyeth's paintings. Everyone knew about the paintings only when all of them were unveiled exhibited.
As the most of the great master painters always have been controversial, Wyeth was not an exception. He was a controversial artist throughout his career. In his young age, It was period of abstract paintings in America. Andrew Wyeth painted mostly realistic paintings, the landscapes and portraits of Helga being the main subjects. Though he had attracted record number of visitors to his exhibitions, he contrasted his contemporaries in style. He rarely used oil paint; he mainly used water colour and egg tempera.
If you want to see the paintings reach with veiled abstraction, overt beauty, and having strong current of emotions; then the paintings by Wyeth would be a good material. In his paintings rich with symbolic contents, Andrew Wyeth had used the light and shadow to illuminate the subjects on the canvass.
His death is a matter of mourning for every artist and every art-lover. May god bless his soul in Heaven.
Naval Langa is a short story writer from India. He writes essays and articles on various subjects, including the art of paintings. For other articles on paintings by Naval Langa please visit the following sites. Here the articles contain detailed reviews of paintings and the images of the paintings
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