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
death kiss popularity work
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
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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.
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My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
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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.
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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.
anxieties certainly people problems relationships work
All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.
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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.
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.
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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.