Andrew Wyeth

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes - Andrew Wyeth

His paintings are truly inspiring, but it is Andrew Wyeth's words that have been most influential in my development as a writer and artist.

"Art, to me, is seeing. I think you have got to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work. That's my art."

I'm an extremely visual person, so it's all about seeing for me. I see word pictures, which is how I write.

"In finding this one object, I find a world. I think a great painting is a painting that funnels itself in and then funnels out, spreads out. I enter in a very focused way and then I go through it and way beyond it."

"The commonplace is the thing, but it's hard to find. Then if you believe in it, have a love for it, this specific thing will become a universal."

Taking the specific and finding the universal in it is something I try to achieve in every work. This is the key to everything.

Andrew Wyeth's Work

Andrew Wyeth Online
A guide to museums, online images and articles about Andrew Wyeth.

Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography

Andrew Wyeth : Memory & Magic
Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, who is age 88 at the date of publication, has continued to paint, to the delight of his admirers, collectors, and the art-loving public. Now, in association with the High Museum exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic takes a fresh look at the work of one of America's most beloved artists.In examining his entire oeuvre, the book celebrates the artist's ongoing love affair with everyday life-domestic, natural, and architectural. Found throughout Wyeth's work, these objects form patterns that illuminate core themes and reveal the artist wrestling with issues of memory, temporality, embodiment, and the metaphysical. Organized chronologically and thematically, the book explores how the artist's approach to these subjects was formed in his early career, and has been revisited in new and surprising ways in recent years.Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic comprises 150 tempera paintings and 50 drawings and watercolors-including his most-famous works, but also many published here for the first time.