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Friday, January 16, 2009

Andrew Wyeth, the U.S. realist painter whose haunting portrait of a young woman lying in a field and gazing at a distant farmhouse became one of the iconic images of 20th-century American art, has died at his home outside Philadelphia. He was 91.

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Thanks for your perspective.
RIP

I lived in Chadds Ford. Hated it.

well here you have the answer to my question about who the 3rd celebrity is from yesterday
isnt it amazing how it always happens that way?

but at least since I am such a celebrity its nice to know that brad pitt and me can rest easy now.

BLT, "Celebrity" is not shorthand for "Creepy Library Stalker".

I DONT CREEP............

Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey author) kicked the bucket, too.

Not related to BLT (rubmypole with bailey's author).

I dont know that you could call him an acually celebrity....

Now I got it!

BLT is Brad Pitt's brother Stu.

who?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it news when a 91-year-old dies?

This is a waste of a topic.

Is it news when a 91-year-old dies?
This is a waste of a topic.
#10 | Posted by KnowsTooMuch

Suggestion: Ever thought about changing your handle to "Don'tKnowMuch"? Give it a whirl. Based on posting history, far more descriptive.

KTM

When's the last time you posted a story?

Come on, impress us.

As a bigger fan of realistic art than the more abstract stuff Spud always appreciated Andrew Wyeths contribution to the genre.

Ta to Doc fer posting them fine links.

Great art in any genre in part of mankinds collective heritage and AW's work will continue to inspire and live on down the ages despite his death.

RIP Andrew Wyeth.

Be Well.

/To Lib Basher and KnowsTooLittle:

It's not your collective ignorance so much as your insistance on demonstrating it repeatedly and the way you guys seem to take a perverse sort of pride in that that Spud finds incomprehensible.

Why do the right FAIL to appreciate art?

"Why do the right FAIL to appreciate art?"

Appreciation requires imagination and an ability, awareness, willingness to taken in an abstracted reality?

I could throw paint at a canvas and produce better art than this tool.

Good riddance!

Okay, fire away, produce, document, and post.

Here you go, Doc.

www.youtube.com

Yeah, very impressive. A little light in the results department. Why not just give this girl a brush, couple a buckets of paint, and let fly?
www.youtube.com

Unfortunately for the basic premise, Wyeth was a painter's painter. Whether he painted it to look "real" or "abstract," he came from a family of exceptionally painterly painters. And he lived up to that standard, admirably and consistently.

Doc,

I am just clowning around.

With 101 on suspension I felt that somebody needed to chime in that they are glad this guy's dead.

I have little doubt that he's a tremendous painter and is worthy of the accolades you are giving him.

Got it, Jeff.

Appreciation requires imagination and an ability, awareness, willingness to taken in an abstracted reality?

~Doc Sarvis

Ah, that does sound reasonable.

Spud was working on a theory that involved Fetal Alcohol Syndrome but yers is good too.

Be Well.

Jeff...I invite you to spend 5 minutes standing in front of Christina's World and let the painting speak for itself.

I personally like his son's technique better, but Wyeth's work effectively put an end to the stuffy European opinion (widely held at the time) that Americans couldn't paint.

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