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aldousphoto: [barça sunset, 2009]by Aldous
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tierradentro: “Winter 1946”, Andrew Wyeth. (via) “A major turning point in his life came in 1945 with the death of his father, who was killed when his car stalled on railroad tracks and was hit by a mail train at a Chadds Ford railroad crossing. Also killed in the accident was the illustrator’s 4-year-old grandson, a nephew of Andrew Wyeth. “When he died, I was just a clever watercolorist — lots of swish and swash,” Mr. Wyeth said. His father’s death, Mr. Wyeth would say later, left him with a compelling need to prove himself as an artist. He spent the following winter working on what came to be one of his most recognized pictures, a tempera known simply as “Winter 1946.” It was a painting of a boy running down a bare, brown hill, casting a shadow in the winter sunlight. Like so much of his art, it took on an intensely personal meaning for its creator, and the very act of working on it became cathartic, Mr. Wyeth said. On the other side of the hill in the painting was the rail crossing where N.C. Wyeth was killed. While he was working on the picture, Andrew Wyeth was overcome with remorse that he had never painted his father. In his own mind the hill became his father, and painting it exorcised his remorse and endowed his art with purpose and meaning.” (From Andrew Wyeth’s obituary on the Washington Post)
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Ice Pool, watercolor by Andrew Wyeth
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fungus. Andrew Wyeth
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