Jamie Wyeth
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0878468145 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His landscape Patriot's Barn could fit almots indistinguishably alongside his father's spare off-season farmscapes, until you notice that it was painted in 2001, a couple of months after the destruction of the World Trade Center: Wyeth captures the impact of the event, registering even at this remove the sense of a country turned upside down, on an empty hillside at the far edge of autumn. His portraits of public figures such as JFK, Andy Warhol, and Rudolf Nureyev emphasize their inner lives. A new solo retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which opens July 16 and continues through December 28, shows Wyeth venturing into the modern era without ever violating the introspective idiom he seemed to command nearly from birth. (Kevin Conley Town & Country)
Excellent illustrated survey of works by Jamie Wyeth from 1952 to 2013: 61 years of an artist's output seen in context. This is a marvelously illustrated book of the first one-man exhibition of Jamie Wyeth's paintings since his one-man show at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1980. Elliot Bostwick Davis of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, wrote most of the catalogue and places Jamie Wyeth's works in context not only with those of his father and grandfather, but also with. "An excellent overview of Wyeth's career and oeuvre" according to Will Thorndike. An excellent overview of Wyeth's career and oeuvre. Lovely illustrations and a lively, insightful critical appraisal. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in American realism over the last half century.. Loved it cover to cover Beautiful book - clearly written and with wonderful illustrations. So happy to have in it in my small collection of art books. Looking forward to getting to Boston soon to see the exhibition in person. it is a perfect gift for any American Paintings enthusiast, maybe any dog enthusiast too!
This retrospective, the first in more than 30 years, presents a full range of work from his earliest virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes. Jamie Wyeth’s early exposure to painting in his father Andrew Wyeth’s studio, his youthful immersion in Andy Warhol’s Factory and the New York art scene of the 1970s, and his continuing dialogue with artists past and present combine with his artistic imagination to create an elusive, hybrid form of realism that ranges from sharply observed portraits of historical and cultural figures, to personified animals and animated landscapes, to a vision of an inferno set on Maine’s Monhegan Island. As famous, and sometimes famously controversial, as the three generations of Wyeth artists have been, the artistic vision of Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), considered separate from the context of his family, remains surprisingly little known. By exploring the themes and subjects central to Jamie Wyeth’s vision, the authors place him in the context of his own dist