1 first

2 and if anyone can do it, it ain't art...

3 and I tend to doubt that photography is really one of the arts, talented photographers notwithstanding.

4 and it's one hell of an audience you have for art if I get the first four comments in...

5 did we ever decide if we wanted to see Joe Biden fix the brakes on anyone's car?

6 I'm pretty sure Wyeth titled the third pic from the top "Firepatch Ginger with the Perky Yabos Reclines on my Bunk".

7 I feel very centered right now

8

the nide is "overflow" 1978

http:// www.artknowledgenews .com/a ndrew-wyeth- remembrance.html ?q=patricia

9 Now, I'm moving to the left.

10 nide... idiot...

11 VA Gator, with respect--

(1) Doesn't 'Yabbo' have two 'b's'?

(2) Damn, that girl's hairy.

12

couldn't find the other two, but here's a pic of Wyeht and W Bush:

http://static. guim.co.uk/sys-images /Guardian/Pix/ pictures/2009/ 01/16/ 0116_wyethandbush _630x390.jpg

take out the spaces

13

Well hell, if slathering boobs with goo is art, then I'm Rembrandt. 

When I work on my next piece (see what I did there?), I'll claim it's for the greater good or some scathing social commentary.  That's a new one.

14 the topmost one is called Wind from the Sea, it's in one of my favorite rooms of the National Gallery in DC.

15 The first pic looks a lot like Christina's World, in reverse, without Christina.

16 Wyeth died just two years ago too. Of all the regionalists he was the best, though the TIME critics always loved blasting him.

17 Mike James, you could be right, but I think it's only two B's when they're a D cup or better.  "Yah-Bohs!" probably works too.

18 I wish I could cover every wall of my condo with N. C. Wyeth's paintings from  "The Scottish Chiefs."

19 Andrew Wyeth is one of my all-time favorite artists!

Just had to say that.

20

no love for the Neue Sachlichkeit

21 Andrew Wyeth's brother Nathaniel was a chemist with DuPont - and came up with the plastic compound strong enought to allow pressurized liquids (ie pop) to be stored in plastic instead of glass.  True story.

22 The first one is called window. The second is called tree. The third is some naked chick in a bed. All of them are haunting and have a nutty wrapper with a hint of stupid. Artistes are so fucking pretentious.

23

The first pic looks a lot like Christina's World, in reverse, without Christina.

dezoomified you mean?

24 Art is great!  just sayin.   Nudes the aristocrat porn. 

25 I like the first one. he does a great job on the curtain

26 I had the pleasure of meeting him (and his son Jamie) many times when I worked at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, DE, which had a number of his works (and those of Jamie, father N. C. and even one by his mother Carolyn) throughout the public rooms of the hotel. He was a delight, thoroughly unassuming and charming. The same can be said for Jamie.

27 The Avastin drug was approved for breast cancer by the FDA. It is expensive. With Obamacare on the horizon the FDA (for the first time evah) reversed its approval of a drug based on the drug's price. Unconscionable.

28

dezoomified you mean?

Posted by: Ben at February 02, 2011 11:27 PM (DKV43)

....and de-enhanced!

29

I had the pleasure of meeting him (and his son Jamie) many times when I worked at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, DE, which had a number of his works (and those of Jamie, father N. C. and even one by his mother Carolyn) throughout the public rooms of the hotel. He was a delight, thoroughly unassuming and charming.

Interesting info.  I would have guessed cold and distant.

30 I should already be a millionaire several times over, because I am a genius and things.  But I only got one chance at a CAC thread.

BTW if you say, "But you suck, BeckoningChasm!" you should still give me like, um, free bacon or something.  For life.

31 Thanks RD, I had no idea you'd use all four. I feel like a greedy pig.

lyle (Robert McMahon)

32 Andrew Wyeth

Now that's art. It's funny though I have never found him cold or put offish but I know what you mean. I think a big part of that is he seemed to paint for himself. Do you feel that way even about one like Master Bedroom?

33

No worries, lyle.  They're great.

34

Memorial is a picture of my life.

35

I think a big part of that is he seemed to paint for himself.

It's funny you said that, because I amost wrote it about 18 times.

36 Thanks RD, I had no idea you'd use all four. I feel like a greedy pig.

lyle (Robert McMahon)

Posted by: lyle at February 02, 2011 11:38 PM (/0D5i)

Very, very,very nice indeed. And I mean nice in the good way. I especially like New Prospect.

37 I appreciate art. I mean art that shows thought, impression, careful planning in the composition and materials, and great skill of execution by the artist. What I mean is, I don't consider an array of Campbell's soup cans on canvas or a crucifix in a jar of pee art. I consider that stuff an insult. 

38 I know it's not Moron art but it's awesome: http://sharpwriter.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d33u2nl

39 Rocks, yeah.  The dog helps a little, I guess.  But I feel like it's more "here is a picture of a dog" rather than "here is a dog."  There's some barrier between the artist and the viewer... whatever that means.

40

It's funny you said that, because I amost wrote it about 18 times.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 02, 2011 11:41 PM (HSJsW)

 Yeah, you definitely get the feeling you are peeking in on someone's private stash with Wyeth. But I think maybe he did that a little bit on purpose. To create a sort of illicit interest in "realistic" art at a time when abstract was so dominant. Sort of like "Shhh. It's okay to like this...between you and me."

41 If one were to travel north in the land of the the ill today, you would see the seen captured by Dawson X 20. This is what you get when Detroitocrats get their claws into a region. YOU GET RUIN. You get desolation brought about by the "FEELINGS" and "NEEDINESS" of liberals doing "GOOD" SO I DEMOCRAT can FEEL GOOD about being a..."an" IDIOT! Pray 2012 can pump out the toxic bilge-water that threatens this great nation and right this ship of state. They have sold their collective souls to the great deceiver and that is THEIR legacy.

42 BTW, all the Morons jokingly asking why Code Pink isn't in Egypt........well, the sag titted skags are there.

43 Rocks, yeah.  The dog helps a little, I guess.  But I feel like it's more "here is a picture of a dog" rather than "here is a dog."  There's some barrier between the artist and the viewer... whatever that means.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 02, 2011 11:45 PM (HSJsW)

Yeah but it's different for me. I have had that hanging on a wall for many years so it's very familiar to me. I guess his stuff grows on you like scotch. I grew up in rooms like that with bedspreads and dogs like that. To me it says lazy fall/winter afternoon and comfy bed. Know what it's for? Did ya see the dog?

44 Ya know, CAC, I am a big art person.  And I do actually love Andrew Wyeth.  But, all this post-ONT shit is, perhaps, a little passive aggressive, no?  Discuss.

45 CAC, I ran across the perfect tool for this.

Tineye .com is a reverse image search. Point it at an image, it finds other similar images. It found 20+ similar images for the first three of your mystery images. And the links seem to identify the images by artist, etc.

It did not, however, find "Model with Latex."

46 Richard...you've got your Ayn Rand on good today!

47 Dating rule # 1 never vomit on your woman's breasts - but if you must, do it artfully, musta been another great St Patricks day

The "Window" is nice and I'm liking McMahon's works as well.
Space Opera - cool

48 Peaches, chill out.  It's not all about you.  A lot of people like the art thread, and this is, like, the sixth or seventh time I've seen the same comment from you.  You're like a rude parrot on acid.

49 42 BTW, all the Morons jokingly asking why Code Pink isn't in Egypt........well, the sag titted skags are there.

Posted by: maddogg at February 02, 2011 11:54 PM (JxMqJ)

Well it was over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor too.

50 I think perhaps we see so many images now that are so busy that seeing images with peace makes us a bit uncomfortable. Wyeth always seemed to me to be about the intimate being a bit too exposed, and that made for the edginess. Why would we be looking at his bedroom? Isn't Christina just having a private moment, viewing her entire world? It is as if we are about to upset the peacefulness, or the epiphany, or whatever, depending on the painting.

The fact that he could capture that so readily and so frequently is positively amazing.

51 The other thing I like about Wyeth is his paintings remind me of a John Ford movie in some way and I really like John Ford.

52 the sixth or seventh time I've seen the same comment from you

Really?  Considering that this is, like, the second time I've even visited the art thread, that's interesting.  Sorry if I offended your tender sensibilities, dude.

53 Janet Napolitano is in a "trance"

54 Andrew Wyeth was sickly as a boy and home-schooled by his father, the great illustrator NC Wyeth. Andrew had a unique apprenticeship in the basics of representation and the use of imagery.

NC was larger than life - a great storyteller with a studio full of pirate costumes, sabers and flintlocks. He painted robust, vivid, action-packed illustrations. Andrew's world revolved around his charismatic father and Chadd's Ford.

NC was babysitting Andrew's toddler nephew when their car was struck by a train and both were killed. From then on, Andrew's work, which was already introspective, assumed a darker, more haunted tone. Much of it is a meditation on death and loss, and sometimes ghosts.

I'm just guessing at chronology here but I think the tree picture is earliest. I would guess that the huge spreading tree that dominates the tiny house and landscape represents old NC.

The top picture comes later. Tire tracks head up a hill and disappear. The ragged curtain billows inward. A breeze, or NC's ghost?

In his images of figures sleeping, Wyeth often used a window to represent the dreaming state. For Wyeth, dreams open a passageway between this world and another. I think sometimes Wyeth used Helga as a stand-in for himself.   

55 I think Christina is a little spooky.  It's prolly a silly take, I know, but that's how I feel.  I think she looks incredibly vulnerable.  I'm not convinced she's appreciating her world more than she is striving to get away from it.  She isn't having a good time there in the grass.  She wants to get home.

56

You didn't offend me, Peaches.  You can grate with rudeness without causing offense.  But it was getting so old, I was wondering whether you'd chime in again tonight while I was writing the post. 

57 RD,

Christina Olsen was a middle-aged cripple. She had to drag herself around. That house and farm were her entire world. She lived there with her brother and almost never left.

Andrew saw her as being very much like himself. He had been crippled as a child and I think he felt damaged as an adult, and was psychologically unable to escape his world of Chad's Ford.   

58 ^{She isn't having a good time there in the grass.  She want to get home.}

I expect that is true, and that pretty much defines her world. On the other hand, I've heard it said that she was resting and heard something that made her start, and that is why she is turning and looking afar. Either one makes sense, I suppose.

59

Christina Olsen was a middle-aged cripple. She had to drag herself around. That house and farm were her entire world. She lived there with her brother and almost never left.

Fascinating.  Bits of info like that are one of the reasons I love this thread.

60 Hooters, hooters, yum, yum, yum,
On a hyper-realist's model who's dumb!

61

Andrew Wyeth wasn't just painting Helga, he was boinking her too.

Chadds Ford is only a few miles from my mom's house (it's in the same county as my mom). 

A little farther down the road, you have Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square (it was a DuPont family owned thing) absolutely spectacular.

62 Oh, and the latex boobs are real not silicone.

63 I think Christina is a little spooky.  It's prolly a silly take, I know, but that's how I feel.  I think she looks incredibly vulnerable.  I'm not convinced she's appreciating her world more than she is striving to get away from it.  She isn't having a good time there in the grass.  She wants to get home.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 03, 2011 12:11 AM (HSJsW)

I would agree. To me it's obvious from her posture she is crippled. This painting without her is a pleasant landscape with a nearby farm. With her in it the farm becomes much more distant that it is. The painting screams "It's a long way home. Be careful." to me.

64

Andrew Wyeth wasn't just painting Helga, he was boinking her too.

I was wondering about that, and it made me wonder about something.  Do you guys see love in his Helga paintings?  Did he paint them with love?  I was looking for it. 

65

You know how people can objectify others from a psychological standpoint?  When someone has been objectified, they're no longer a person.  They're an object, a tool.  They no longer have feelings of their own.  They are there to be used and then discarded. 

Everything seems objectified in Wyeth.  (Maybe that's the barrier I was trying to get at.)

66 That New Prospect piece is pretty damn good.

67 Turns out my cat is smarter than I am. 

I hope I have enough boxes.

68

I like his work--I think it's beautiful--but it makes me uneasy. It's profoundly melancholy, lonely-feeling. I think it's much darker than it may appear to some. And some of it is weirdly frightening. I've looked at dozens of his paintings, and I get no sense of invitation or warmth from any of them.

I agree.  He is the polar opposite of his father, NC as far as subject matter and use of light/shadow.  I appreciate his technique but I could never relate to the subject matter.  I think one of the reasons was his regionalism but I'm more inclined to be put off by the starkness and emptiness of so much of his work.  As for NC, I loved his early western paintings, but have a fondness for his illustrations because of the books I read as a child...yeah I read Stevenson.  I have always felt that illustrators were given short shrift by the art community. 

69 46 I have Family there, my Grandfather farmed peas along the Rock River for Jolly Green in a town called Rockford ill (sic) now, going to ground and look who the UNIONS just elected to lead the state to loser status (or WINNER status if you happen to be ethiopia) welcome to the 3rd world Land O Lincoln!! SSSHHHH.... secret The FEDS are gonna throw you under the bus as is their M O, your gonna be the poster child for DEFAULTS and BANKRUPTCY!! and maybe the CHI-COMS will bail you out which may be the new world order coming to a state near.....YOU???

70

I was wondering about that, and it made me wonder about something.  Do you guys see love in his Helga paintings?  Did he paint them with love?  I was looking for it. 

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 03, 2011 12:29 AM (HSJsW)

He wasn't sleeping with her and wasn't in love with her. It was a farce ginned up to spark interest. Helga had a very unique look and it fit well with the feeling of his paintings. She was chosen for look, not love.

71 Do you guys see love in his Helga paintings?  Did he paint them with love?  

Partly it's a matter of Wyeth's style. I don't think it's an effective vehicle for expressing love. But in the Helga portraits you can feel his fascination with every detail of her face and hair as if they are uniquely precious. He tries to see more deeply into her than he does in his other portraits.

And sometimes he conveys an awe and reverence for her face that is almost religious. There is a glory and a grandeur in some of her portraits that you won't see in portraits of his wife.   

72 That New Prospect piece is pretty damn good.

Thanks.

73

You know how people can objectify others from a psychological standpoint?  When someone has been objectified, they're no longer a person.  They're an object, a tool.  They no longer have feelings of their own.  They are there to be used and then discarded. 

Everything seems objectified in Wyeth.  (Maybe that's the barrier I was trying to get at.)

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 03, 2011 12:35 AM (HSJsW)

I would agree with that too. To a point. This Helga painting doesn't fit that mold to me. But I think that was on purpose. I don't think he wanted the things in his paintings to be interpreted for what they looked like. He left you your imagination about what was going on or what it meant but not the look. The look was limited to how he saw it. Adjusting your view doesn't help with a Andrew Wyeth painting. They were objectified but they were his objects. He painting the same thinsg too often to say they were discarded either, IMHO.

74 Everything seems objectified in Wyeth. (Maybe that's the barrier I was trying to get at.) Posted by: rdbrewer at February 03, 2011 12:35 AM (HSJsW) It also seems like even when the objects in his work were right in your face you were looking at them through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

75 That is my artistic impression of the Wyeth, it is a luxury to be free of the day to day when your most fav of muses is just a farmhouse away. Should all of us be so lucky, even to have a muse to begin with. By the way... WHAT THE FUCK IS A MUSE????

76 WHAT THE FUCK IS A MUSE???? Posted by: Richard at February 03, 2011 12:53 AM It's a chick who lets you put goo on her boobs.

77 It's a chick who lets you put goo on her boobs.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at February 03, 2011 01:16 AM (F+Y9Z)

True on so many levels. Well played.

78 Bureaucratic Masturbation.

You should add a subtitle. Pearl Necklace.

79 #78 comical for maybe an image or too but not really relevant giving the look in the final images, as you could get from the short video Erinn shot of me towards the end applying the final layers of paint and latex appliances here: http://tinyurl.com/6bb9ljr

80 comical for maybe an image or too but not really relevant giving the look in the final images, as you could get from the short video Erinn shot of me towards the end applying the final layers of paint and latex appliances here: http://tinyurl.com/6bb9ljr

Posted by: CAC at February 03, 2011 01:47 AM (CZnXZ)

Dude, how do you work with all that yapping' goin' on? 

Also do you just dig Febreze or something?

81 >>Really? Considering that this is, like, the second time I've even visited the art thread, that's interesting. Sorry if I offended your tender sensibilities, dude.>> Mom? Is that you? My mom knows from passive aggressive, oy.

82 Sweet art.  I love photo-realism.  Also, Space Opera needs to be a book cover.

83 I went to see the Helga Series when they were in DC. The older couple behind me was really impressed...the elderly white lady remarked to her husband.. "Wow, that's quite a bush!", while staring at a full frontal nude of Helga....I have to admit she was correct. I am from the area where Wyeth lived in PA....and each of his pieces always makes me homesick for PA....

84 RE Lloyd the Conqueror: Why is Baron Harkonnen menacing James May?

85 Christina Olsen was a middle-aged cripple. She had to drag herself around. That house and farm were her entire world. She lived there with her brother and almost never left.

The family used to roll Christina down the hill, and she would pull herself up every day. It was an exercise regimen, from my understanding.

I always found this painting intriguing, because the title implies Christina has a vivid imagination, yet there is a vulnerability in her pose. So, her movement is restricted, and that adds a touch of menace to an idyllic landscape.

The Helga painting reminds me of Gregory Crewdson's Ophelia. Helga is a bit fleshier, but she could be dead. You get the sense Wyeth is emotionally stunted and sees Helga as a young boy would see her. It's rather Freudian, and I suspect that was its appeal to the art world.

86 I'm with rdbrewer on the uneasiness Wyeth's paintings give me. The top one I would have guessed was titled "No One Can Hear You" and is the view of a serial killer out the window of an abandoned house. His victim is trussed and gagged in another room and this is part of his ritual - gazing out the window and letting the anticipation build. On a brighter note, I think he renders titties more accurately and lovingly than any of the Old Masters. Women's titties, especially in repose, are not perfectly round hemisphe res. They flatten and elongate. Plus, you know it's art when it's nekkid. I love photography, but I could never be a full-time artist. It just doesn't pay enough for most of them. Then again, they say that work is its own reward. And CAC works with some impressive titties, so good for him. I really enjoy the art threads. Keep 'em coming.

87 So CAC gets to hold titties (both hands!), spread goo all over them, take pictures, and call it art?  Oh man, I'm gonna go to art school!

88 His work always made me uneasy too. Christina's World makes me feel that she wants to get away from the house. That she is looking back to make sure no one can see her. Attempting to escape her 'world' and perhaps her disability? Or something more sinister....

89 @apotheosis  It's Mike Smith terrorizing Brian Posehn  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675439/

90 A lot of people think that Christina is a young woman or teen, but she was a fifty year old invalid living on the farm in the background at the time of  Wyeth's painting. The youthfulness of her pose has captivated and perplexed millions of admirers.

Art critics hated it, one calling the "extreme right wing of American art."

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