Thinking of Wyeth makes me wonder – will any artist ever again get famous for doing something like this? Or is realist art a genre whose time has passed forever?
I didn’t know he was still alive! He’s my favorite artist, along with Thomas Hart Benton. If I had more wall space, I’d have more than two Wyeth prints on my walls.
A) Let’s fucking hope so, and B) Of course one will. No genre disappears forever.
EDIT: OK, that was a bit too broad. Of course specific genres can disappear, but something as encompassing as “realist art” will not. It will come back.
I had no idea Wyeth was still alive. Christina’s World makes me feel incredibly claustraphobic.
Christina’s World is pretty good. Sad to see him go.
My favorite is The Scarecrow. It’s on this page. I also like Master Bedroom, and the one (don’t know the name) that’s just a filmy curtain blowing in a window.
I’ll admit it. I didn’t realize that “Christina’s World” was of a girl with polio crawling home.
I have a print of Master Bedroom. It makes me sad, though; the dog looks so old.
He does look old, doesn’t he? I like that one (I have it too) because we had a dog like that once, and because the bedroom is almost exactly like a bedroom (even the bedspread) in an old farmhouse we lived in when I was a kid. It’s just so peaceful looking – one of Wyeth’s warmer pieces. A lot of his stuff looks cold. I don’t know why it’s so inviting, but it is.
Postin’ “me too” like some brain-dead AOLer.
Sigh.
I wonder if Helga will be at the funeral. I wonder if Siri will.
I thought Christina of “Christina’s World” was blind, not polio-stricken?
I grew up about 15 minutes from his house in Chadds Ford, PA (his son Jamie, also an artist, had a home nearby, though I don’t know if he’s still there). My mother had seen him a couple of times at a little restaurant in the area back in the 1980s, and she said he looked very old even then. (In fact, when I called her this morning with the news that he had died, her first words were, “My God, how old was he?” :p)
A great artist. He’ll be missed.
It’s a view from the farthest she can crawl to from her house, in other words, a view of her entire world.
When Snoopy (of Peanuts) lost his Van Gogh in the doghouse fire, he gets an Andrew Wyeth to replace it.