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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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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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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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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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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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.
Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
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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.
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Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.