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
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.
bore faces
I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.
learned longtime music pigs soothing
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.
danger death hope lose satisfied
I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.
animals familiar mostly paint paintings series
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
died knew wonderful year
I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.
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.
art aunts died earned family life living prominent uncles year
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
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.
brushes lived natural pencils
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
painter profession stand
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
huge sought warhol
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.