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
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Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
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The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
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Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.
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I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
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I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
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Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
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My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations...
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Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
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Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.
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I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.
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The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
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I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
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I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
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I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.