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Andrew wyeth drawing7/7/2023 ![]() He is an extremely well-known and popular painter. Wyeth causes difficulty, however, even for many of his admirers. ![]() As one of the most articulate spokesmen of the New York school, Professor Sam Hunter of Brandeis University, put it in the catalogue of the Seattle World’s Fair, 1962, “In view of the achievements of the Abstract Expressionists in the Fifties it is no longer possible to assume that the opposing currents of realism, expressionism, a traditional romanticism and abstraction are of equal validity.” There is, he said, no valid work independent of the New York school’s “formal and ideological preoccupations.” ![]() Twentieth-century theory says that this is the age of abstraction, that the observation of nature is finished as a source of painting therefore, an artist like Wyeth has no right to exist. Art criticism in our time tends to be dogmatic and rigid rather than flexible and receptive. ![]() ![]() I like it at a distance, but when I come near I am always disappointed to see that there are objects.”Īndrew Wyeth paints with a brilliance and authority that have imposed him upon an art world preoccupied by ideas diametrically opposed to his own. WYETH,” said a New York painter to him, “I enjoy your work very much. ![]()
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