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
Jamie Wyeth quotes about
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.
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.
lazy degrees tools
Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.
photography art people
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.
thinking documentaries painting
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations...
portraits danger methodology
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
discipline brain painting
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
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.
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.