Jamie Wyeth

Jamie Wyeth

As famous, and sometimes famously controversial, as the three generations of Wyeth artists have been, the artistic vision of Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), considered separate from the context of his family, remains surprisingly little known. This retrospective, the first in more than 30 years, presents a full range of work from his earliest virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes. Jamie Wyethâ€™s early exposure to painting in his father Andrew Wyethâ€™s studio, his youthful immersion in Andy Warholâ€™s Factory and the New York art scene of the 1970s, and his continuing dialogue with artists past and present combine with his artistic imagination to create an elusive, hybrid form of realism that ranges from sharply observed portraits of historical and cultural figures, to personified animals and animated landscapes, to a vision of an inferno set on Maineâ€™s Monhegan Island. By exploring the themes and subjects central to Jamie Wyethâ€™s vision, the authors place him in the context of his own distinguished artistic heritage as well as the long tradition of American realist painting and its contemporary revival. The more than 100 paintings, works on paper and multimedia assemblages lavishly reproduced in this book invite us to explore the world of a prodigiously gifted, adamantly individualistic American artist.
Country USA
Brand Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780878468140
ReleaseDate 2014-07-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780878468140

Country	USA
Brand	Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer	MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780878468140
ReleaseDate	2014-07-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780878468140

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