Andrew Newell Wyeth

"If the feelings are strong, hand knows it."

                                    Andrew Newell Wyeth.

Andrew Wyeth - the most controversial artist in American painting of the 20th veka.Modnye and influential critics did not recognize him, the audience was on its crowds of exhibitions, museums secretly bought his paintings (curators often feel better art than criticism) ... and the only artists including abstractionist Pollack - just know that they are dealing with a powerful and mysterious gift.

Andrew Newell Wyeth (Andrew Newell Wyeth, July 12, 1917, Chedds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA - January 16, 2009) - an American realist painter, one of the most prominent representatives of the United States of fine arts of the XX century. The son of a prominent illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth, brother of inventor Neteniela Wyeth and artist Henriette Wyeth Hurd, father of artist Jamie Wyeth.

The most important feature art by Andrew Wyeth that the artist lived his whole life in only two places: in Chedds Ford, Pennsylvania, and on the ocean coast of Maine, where the family had a summer home. He drew only two of these places. He did portraits of the inhabitants of these towns only - your friends and neighbors.

He once received a call from the State Department and was told that the Soviet Union wants to put his portraits of blacks. Andrew said: "I ??do not write blacks. I am writing to my friends. "And refused.

One day, looking out the window of his "studio" in the attic, he saw on the field not far away at all the girl who lay down and apparently resting. Andrew has wondered how you can relax in such an awkward position? But then it happened quite incredible. Christina crawling began to move across the field toward the house away. Wanted to rush to help her, but something like befall the whole body of Andrew, as if paralyzed. The painting was surreal: parched field, lots and lots of sky and the heart of a pink dress, choking life.

This picture made ??him famous

Wyeth later learned that Christina as a child suffered a severe illness and life remained paralyzed. For 60 years she was crawling - the house, the kitchen garden ... Wyeth never painted Christina cripple. Its heavy cross, her quiet courage steel qualities of his paintings of her: a spell of her house, the void of the hill ... and not just in the film "The World of Christine." In her portrait on the porch (black, white and brown, almost graphic) - not a woman but her thinned character looking somewhere with a resigned calmness ...

 Once Wyeth up to the second floor of the house Christina, where she herself did not rise, where never tidied ...

"It was hot, I opened the window, and suddenly, the wind thrashing curtain that did not move, probably about 30 years, God, it was fantastic! Thin tulle net soared with the dusty floor as fast as if it was not the wind, and a ghost, spirit, which opened out.

   Andrew Wyeth spent long hours outdoors. Nobody in the house knew where and why he was leaving. Freedom and privacy of work was his privilege. Relatives were forbidden to ask where he was. Artists wondered why he suffers and does not draw from photographs. Here is what was responsible for this Wyeth:

"You see, it is important to the constant presence on the scene. I have to live in an environment of what I write. Then at some point you can grasp the meaning.

Neighbor-German Karl K?rner Andrew was more scared than loved. He became attached to Charles after his father's death (the same brutal German lips - he said). K?rner gave Andrew a studio light pantry. Wyeth made ??a portrait of Charles - warriors, German, arrogant man - one of the best American portraits.

In selecting objects Wyatt does not necessarily led love or admiration, but not necessarily - a strong sense. One of the most famous paintings of Wyeth - dining K?rner in light yellow tones: Window and the edge of the table with an empty dining appliance. The picture is called "Groundhog Day" - the day when they decide whether the spring has come. And the room is waiting. Spring it? Returns host ?.

He immerses the viewer into the world of the everyday, in which ordinary people lived. In this world of modern civilization was not present, the Industrial Age.

Richard Merimee: Once in the house, he heard K?rner unfamiliar voice spoke German. It was Helga, the daughter of friends of Charles, which was hired to help around the house. She was young, beautiful, natural, and it was the charm of a foreigner ... Andrew was inspired. The fact that he almost deliberately arranged his life so that it is constantly created emotional stress: delight, fear, apprehension, and all - irrepressible, infecting power ... secretly began work on a series of paintings "Helga."

  Secret session lasted for almost a decade. About the relationship of the artist with his new model can only guess. In the end, Wyeth exhausted this source, there were other models. Helga, abandoned Wyatt was in the deepest depressiyu.V late 80s he painted "The Vault": Helga, a coat, a devastated face, leaning against the trunk of a tree. It was returned to final.On landscapes.

Wyatt respond to the emotions viewers who do not know any of his characters, nor the circumstances of his life. Collection of "Helga" bought for vast millions of Japanese. Wyeth exhibition was a huge success in Russia in the 87th godu.Sekret painting by Andrew Wyeth (like all art) is that it is able to express the feelings that most people are inexpressible, but recognizable. "