Reader Comments on The Ghost of Andrew Wyeth from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:22:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/art/wyeth A great master. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:33:27 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/art/wyeth I love art, majored in art, and fell in love with Andrew Wyeth's work about 35 years ago. On a trip to NYC my uncle took me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Kuerners and Olsons exhibit and I was hooked. Seeing those grand paintings - with unbelievably detailed brushwork and color that spoke words, volumns, and reached out and grabbed something in me - it was an immediate love affair. I got the museum's book that showed everything they exhibited and included an enormouse interview Wyath wrote speaking of the works, philosophy, family, and more is one of my treasures. The last painting in the viewing is "The Virgin." There are no words to describe it's impact. If you ever get a chance to see it - don't pass it up. Since then I still review that book, have kept the major magazine pieces on him (see TIME magazine, August 18, 1986 on "The Helga Paintings"), bought that book ("The Helga Pictures") and have appreciated not only his art, but his dedication to painting his way, what he's written, what he expresses, and his philosophies tremendously. I would call him one of America's great institutions. That's all. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:22:45 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/art/wyeth Thanks for the information about "Christina's World". I have wondered about the girl in the painting from the first time that I saw the painting ( about 50 years ago ). It did occur to me that she was crippled, but I was not sure. Thanks, again. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:21 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/art/wyeth Edgar, Your article about Wyeth for Down East (April issue?) was terrific. In terms of artists being popular/misunderstood, I wonder if comparimg Wyeth to Robert Frost is appropriate. Their work can be appreciated on so many levels. On the surface, the simplicity of rural NE (and Penn., in the case of Chadds Ford) is what is communicated, but there is so much more. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:27:58 +0100