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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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 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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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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Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
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Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
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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.
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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.
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The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
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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.
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I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
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I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
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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.
Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
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I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.