Who is Andrew Wyeth|Wyeth's Art|Book Illustration

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
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I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace ~~

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.
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I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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The only virtue to it, is to put down an idea about what you feel at the moment.
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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
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To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walk

In Andrew Wyeth's work I sense so much honesty and his work to me has extreme integrity, thus I offer this poem in that spirit:

"I Want to Believe There Are Good and Honest Men and Women"

Somewhere
somehow
I want to believe
there are
good things
honest men
honest women
who can say
without prejudice
THIS is what I believe
and THIS is just.
THIS is the truth
and it stands tall
beyond any darkened skyline
of predetermined
faults.

I want to believe in good people.
They are out there
you know it
and ohhh...
I do too!
So blacken out that stinking gloom
no room for that kind of stuff
pack up your sad tune
and lover
baby
lets get past that stuff
and get the hell
out of there/here/where!
Get past all that BAD
jeer!
Clear?

Lets fly
that high.
Lets decide
from where it comes
and just how far
we can without question
if we really want to
run toward the good stuff
where honesty
is not just spoken
but because of its brilliance
just
GLOWS!

Fun?
Hell yes!
So put it all to your own
the world is actually great
test.

Make a pact with a best friend
and if you ain't got one
no need
I have never had one
either
so honey at this moment?
YOU and ME babe!
CHEER!!
Let change the world's thinking
one thought
one trying to do what we can
at the moment
plan
just by saying a simple
"Hi"
to a neighbor
in our
back yards
or saying hi
to a potential
GREEN friend.

No matter love
is draggin
lets tame that stupid ass nagging
that
where would you be without me
stuff
be your own hero
best friend
dove
of the worlds love.

Every single thing
in life
is tested with strife
So we get that
right?
or just for fun
has a certain predictability
see?
And that thing is
people can decide
create a minds eye
or not
make that plot
ring true
what YOU
will PERSONALLY do!

ABOUT Kathy Ostman-Magnusen: I am an artist, represented by Monkdogz Urban Art, New York. ORIGINAL ART may be purchased through Monkdogz: http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Magnusen/artist_magnusen.htm
FREE ART GIFTS,suitable for children plus prints, giclees, cards, available on my website: http://www.kathysart.com

The IMAGE is of my sculpture "Bleeding Wings 5"

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