January 16, 2009
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ART WARS continued:
Behind
the Picture"Oftentimes people will like a picture I paint because it’s maybe the sun hitting on the side of a window and they can enjoy it purely for itself," Wyeth once said. "It reminds them of some afternoon. But for me, behind that picture could be a night of moonlight when I’ve been in some house in Maine, a night of some terrible tension, or I had this strange mood. Maybe it was Halloween. It’s all there, hiding behind the realistic side."
-- Andrew Wyeth, who died today
Related material:
"In the pictures of the old masters, Max Picard wrote in The World of Silence, people seem as though they had just come out of the opening in a wall... "
-- Annie Dillard in For the Time Being
"And the wall is made of light-- that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did."-- Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted
