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
attracts chat field god painters painting sit sort wait
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.
form interests moves paint record
I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.
individual
Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.
danger death hope lose satisfied
I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.
began drawing education finishing formal home left nearly necessary paint school sixth
I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
incredibly limitless
With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.
dance good music
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
brushes lived natural pencils
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
huge sought warhol
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
let-it-go want way
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.
interesting mind frost
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.
portraiture faces portraits
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
feelings looks portraiture
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.
portraits portraiture paint
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.