Jamie Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
JamesBrowning Wyethis a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition, painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
house lived wore worked
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
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My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.
bursting rather work
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
apparently booming great man reflected whereas work
My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
armor dead grass interest knights whose work
My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.
hard time
I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.
dance good music
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
incredibly limitless
With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.
death kiss popularity work
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
absurd puppets
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
totally
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
painted rags union
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
portraits portraiture paint
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.