Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Newell Wyeth
Born: July 12, 1917; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: January 16, 2009; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Art Movement: Regionalism, Contemporary Realism
Field: painting
Presentation picture: Emily's World, digital, 2021 (Based on Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting "Christina's World")
Soundtrack:
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
Mvt. II Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mvt III Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Wyeth is a famous American artist specializing in realistic paintings of people and landscapes. Figurative paintings are popular in the post-war period dominated by abstraction. While his work is considered melancholic, the artist prefers to consider it attentive. "I just think like that, whether it's contemplative, silent, whether it's a lonely person, people will always have a sense of sadness," he says. The self-taught painter sparked controversy in the 1980s with Helga Pictures, a series of over 200 works that included nudes of a German housekeeper who would later become his assistant.