[스크랩] Andrew Wyeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Wyeth. (American, born 1917). Christina's World. 1948. Tempera on gessoed panel, 32 1/4 x 47 3/4" (81.9 x 121.3 cm). Purchase     Dodges Ridge 1947 Andrew Wyeth egg tempera on fiberboard 41 1/8 x 48 1/8 in. (104.5 x 122.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. 1969.47.75   Andrew Wyeth Hawk Mountain, 1961 Gift of Mr. Halleck Lefferts 1979.54.1

 

Tenant Farmer, 1961
Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
Tempera on board
30-1/2 x 40 in.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Phelps
© Andrew Wyeth
DAM #1964-10

 

Considered America’s premiere realist artist, Andrew Wyeth is best known

for his watercolors and paintings of the landscape and people of Chadds

Ford, Pennsylvania, and Cushing, Maine. The son of famous illustrator and

 painter, Newell Convers Wyeth, Andrew achieved national recognition in

1940, when at the ago of twenty-three, he became the youngest member

ever elected to the American Watercolor Society. In the early 1940s, Wyeth

began painting with the medium of egg tempera which enabled him to pair

a startlingly detailed technique and straightforward subject matter with

a vaguely unsettling and enigmatic aura.

The inspiration for Tenant Farmer, 1961, grew from an experience from which

he was moved to paint the scene. Walking home in the snow a few days before

Christmas in Chadds Ford, an image of a frozen deer dangling from a willow

tree next to a dilapidated brick house lingered in Wyeth’s mind. Beginning

in January and over a span of four months, he began painting the vision

after completing a series of pencil and dry brush studies of the house,

log pile and deer.

Composing the scene within a shallow spatial setting, Wyeth painted the sky

as a still and airless backdrop against which the hanging animal, bare branches

of the tree and stark angles of the eighteenth century brick house are emphasized.

The work appears cold and motionless, with the only elements of implied movement

indicated in the window curtain and dangling tree branches. An oppressive, heavy

silence pervades the scene, providing a lonely and disquieting atmosphere to the work.

 For Wyeth, who recalled thinking of the young buck once alive and running freely,

the images of deer and house in Tenant Farmer became symbols of death and decay.

 

Andrew Newell Wyeth (American, born 1917) Winter 1946, 1946 Tempera on composition board, 31 3/8 x 48 in. (79.7 x 121.9 cm) Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, 72.1.1 © Andrew Wyeth Andrew Wyeth's meticulously imagined art conveys a tragic vision. Considered together, his paintings comprise a lifelong meditation upon the frailty of life and the imminence of death. The artist celebrates the bleak landscape of late autumn and winter, the weathered barns and farmhouses of Maine and Pennsylvania, and the people who endure a hardscrabble existence on the margins of society. Winter 1946 is one of the artist's most autobiographical works, painted immediately after the death of his father, the celebrated illustrator N. C. Wyeth. According to the artist, the hill became a symbolic portrait of his father, and the figure of the boy, Allan Lynch, running aimlessly "was me, at a loss—that hand drifting in the air was my free soul, groping." Even without this story, the image is troubling: a dark, jagged form set awkwardly against an oceanic swell of brown. A skilled dramatist, Wyeth eliminates all distracting elements from the scene. The boy and his thoughts are visually isolated, his eyes averted. Further deepening the physical and emotional alienation of the boy, the artist has us look down upon the scene from an improbable height. The heightened clarity of the picture results from Wyeth's use of the egg tempera medium: ground earth and mineral colors mixed with yolk and thinned with water. Wyeth once admitted he likes tempera for its "feeling of dry lostness."

 

 

 

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