what's your objection to Christina's World? I always thought it was rather evocative. I grant you that it is probably over-reproduced. I liked Winter, amongst his other paintings.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:03 AM, William Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: >> But, to be truthful, his paintings (at least the ones on his website) don't >> do anything for me. > > Wyeth's paintings are best viewed up close (as are most paintings). > Many are series that span decades (the Helga paintings), he liked to > study people over time. Though he was a Realist painter he was also an > interpreter of reality. He was known to paint a particular person over > the course of many years. The pictures on the website, unfortunately, > are neither representative of his full body of work, nor are they > particularly well digitized... > > :-( > > > -- > will > > "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; > and that would just be unacceptable." > - Carrie Fisher > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285305 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
