Biography: Andrew Wyeth Part 1 (1980)

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This biographical film explores Wyeth's seemingly realistic paintings and sets them against the landscape and people of Pennsylvania and Maine, the two places where this best-loved of contemporary American painters has lived all his life. We learn from Wyeth how he turned his neighbors into models, and we learn from the models what it is like to sit for Wyeth and what the painter's demands are. An exceptional insight into the artist and his work.

[@anthonyguidice2655]

Thank you for making this lovely documentary available. The restraint is magnificent - allowing Wyeth alone to talk about the work. Is anything more irritating than critics and 'experts' who've never drawn or painted talking about art? That's hardly tolerable, right?

[@oscarfairley4779]

It was produced by the BBC back in 1980 and sold in American on VHS tapes in the early 80s. One of the best film ever done on the artist.

[@elleh3495]

His childhood of having incredible amounts of time alone, I think, was what allowed him to explore the sensitivity of his surroundings. NC was right in his feelings about "how to raise an artist", although I can understand it may have seemed lonely at times--or not. I was like this also, in that I had immense spans of time alone and outside, and it allowed me to see so many things that many people just walk by and never notice. I can remember being obsessed with blades of grasses; the milk thistles, and the queen anne's lace, and the stems of dandelions--how luscious and pulpy they were and how it smelled. I think about this now, in our smartphone era, and I wonder if anyone notices these things anymore. They need to be noticed. I love Andrew Wyeth. He's the teacher I never knew.

[@skuzad25]

I felt that. I still notice those things. I think people are thinking more abstract thoughts these days, like what the universe is all about. I still appreciate the little things because I feel like they are more tangible. Mostly children love those little things because they’re seeing them for the first time. But I love those things because I think it’s all connected. As adults we’re supposed to sustain ourselves. Most people become angry and upset. Life becomes war. I’m 24, had a great childhood and have a son now. And I’m fighting to make sure he has the same great childhood I had or even better, and if I can help others out along the way that’s fine. Wyeth reminds me of my life. Existentialism in small town USA. Being semi-conscious throughout life. Getting old in old homes. Grass nulls and creeky floors.

[@knoxrembrandt]

ich liebe und verehre ANDREW WYETH sehr,... er zeigt uns den Weg, wie eine grossartige Malerei zu machen ist.... ich lerne ständig von ihm...auch jetzt noch, da ich selbst 70 jahre alt schon geworden bin.., 50 MALJAHRE hinter mir habe und ich .danke ANDREW WYETH... postum.

[@thomascreeley867]

The quality of the painting is so good I at one point forgot I wasn't looking at a moving image (and vice versa--lovely cinematography).

[@oscarfairley4779]

I would watch this tape almost every afternoon back in the early 80s.

[@elleh3495]

Oscar Fairley Andrew is a national treasure. Sometimes I get a sense of anxiety that these videos will disappear from KZbin, as I have come to watch them for comfort and an immersion into a time I would have rather lived in.

[@lisawelchknecht251]

This video is a treasure!

[@debleighton-bowlby3412]

Amazing perspective

[@rembeadgc]

This video footage is rich. Much more of Wyeth's mind is shared in this video than all the others combined. This isn't some reporter or entertainer asking him questions and showing us Wyeth from their point of view. This is Wyeth saying what was in his own mind and reliving it as he tells it..

[@elleh3495]

rembeadgc his book is also very revealing, he shares alot of his inner landscape of his mind. Im so thankful this film was made.

[@jdstamm9663]

this is beautiful

[@evelyntalaricosretutotetuy7208]

This man is. Really amazing.,my favorite.🥰

[@ivangolubovic7474]

Divine artist.

[@elleh3495]

Hello. Who produced this video? I can't seem to find anything about it. It's really wonderful to hear him speaking about his life, and I wondered if this is available on DVD? Thank you so much for posting this--the two parts. It's wonderful.

[@oscarfairley4779]

Elle D produced by the BBC in the early 80s ,and on VHS tapes at that time.

[@elleh3495]

Oscar Fairley Thank you for your reply. I have found it also available on DVD at Amazon also!!

[@ladyjane9980]

Andrew was my uncle.

[@behnamkh8466]

anyone knows what does he say exactly from 1:35 to 1:39?

[@suttree3233]

"I got to the bottom of it and that's why I turned to abstraction"

[@georgeanderson7499]

I recently read Christine Baker Kline's novel "A Piece of the World" which is a fictional acct. of Andrew Wyeth painting "Christina's World." I hope it gets made into a movie. I'd love to see a biopic movie of Andrew Wyeth.

[@VoXuanThien1984]

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[@veritas6335]

While Wyeth's skill was certainly admirable, his paintings are so full of isolation, despair, loneliness, barrenness and bleak hopelessness that they are unpleasant to look at. One doesn't want to be around them for long. His talent was deep but his world view incredibly depressing.