Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
#2re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 12:58pmthanks for the info, SOMMS. I wasn't aware he was still alive.
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#2re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 1:03pm
We have a large print of "Christina's World" in our home...
RIP
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#3re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 1:24pmI know it was fashionable to knock Wyeth, but I always loved that painting, Doodle. So mysterious.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#4re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 1:27pm
One of my favorite artists (I like being unfashionable 
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RIP.
#5re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 1:30pmI remember someone once said of "Christina's World": Is she trying to get to the house (a la "Lassie Come Home") or away from the house (a la "Texas Chainsaw Massacre")?
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#6re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 1:31pmThere was an exceptional exhibition of his work at The Philadelphia Museum of Art about two years ago. Anyone who didn't like his work should have gone, as it was breath-taking. May he rest in peace, and may heaven have some interesting things for him to paint. I hear the light there is perfect.
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#8re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 2:08pm
In high school I took art classes during the summer. Our teacher really likeD Andrew Wyeth and every year we watched a presentation on his work. (To show my age, it was a filmstrip with a 33LP with the beeps on it to tell you when to move to the next frame...And the music featured while we watched the slides was "Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel...I'll take my teeth out now and rest in the rocking chair...)
I do love "Christina's World" and found the story about Helga and her brother so fascinating. Another piece that struck me was the one painted after his father died. It is a country road with a grassy hill to the side. A dark figure (a man)is strolling just around the bend to disappear out of view.) Very moving.
RIP, Andrew Wyeth and thanks, Mr. O'Grady, for introducing me to him.
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#9re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 3:07pmI saw his exhibit a few years back at the Philadelphia Art Museum and was blown away. RIP
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wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#10re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 3:13pmI bought a reproduction of his painting called "Nan's Dreams" - his dog sleeping in the moonlight, with the house visible through a window. Every time I walk by it in my hallway, I stop and marvel at it. And it is a mere suggestion of the power and peace of the original. Few painters have the absolute control of detail that he does.
#11re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 3:19pm
Unless comic books have been lying to me, the girl in the painting has polio and where she is now is about as far as she can get away from the house she lives in. So whether she's trying to get to it or get away from it is irrelevant; that picture represents her entire world.
Goddammit why did I leave all my Preacher graphic novels in storage? 
#12re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 3:25pm
It may be irrelevant, Weez, but it's still a funny line.
#13re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 3:27pmReg, Christina was a neighbor of Wyeth's who was paralyzed from the waist down, but it was Wyeth's wife who actually posed for the piece.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#14re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 3:58pmWould everyone please stop clouding my punchline with facts?
#16re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 4:24pm
Sorry Reg, but women aren't funny. If you still had a male avatar, perhaps people wouldn't be talking so rudely over your pretty little head. Now go make me a pot pie! 
#17re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 5:06pm
A note to future readers of this thread: Weez is not insane. Or rather, she may be, but the above comment is not evidence of it.
I had briefly changed my avatar to a photo of Ethel Merman, in honor of her birthday.
#19re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 5:11pm
Puh. Your first taste of the glass ceiling and you back out faster than a very fast backwards thing. Men! :P
(I still say you should've used the other avvy I suggested for you. 
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#20re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 5:13pmSo that's the thanks I get for defending your sanity--something you've never troubled yourself with, I might add.
#21re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 5:15pm
Though you're right of course. I'll be the first to admit that I haven't the fortitude--not to mention the tolerance for pain--of any of the women I know.
#22re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 5:16pm
Defending my sanity? Fella, I make to you the same response I make to anyone foolish enough to try defending my honour: your efforts would be better used defending something that actually existed.
#23re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 5:19pmSomewhere, Andrew Wyeth is saying "I hate to interrupt . . . "
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#24re: Andrew Wyeth
Posted: 1/16/09 at 8:25pm
A little known item of art history:
Christina is chasing her hamster who jumped away from her.
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