nsarss.blogg.se - Wyeth painting

So, I guess I would say I learned about the painting first. It was just a well known image and I didn’t know much about Andrew Wyeth beyond that until I started going to museums and learning about him, about who he was and what the whole story was. You know a lot of girls had it on their walls, it was a poster people had. It was also sort of widely popular when I was growing up.

I had grown up seeing that painting when I was young. What would it look like if the woman in the field turned her head? I think you could say that’s what my book is about. She’s enigmatic because we don’t know who she is or what she’s thinking. Did that give you freedom to write about her in a way that you wouldn’t have had if her face was visible.Ībsolutely.

In the painting, Christina Olson has her head turned so we can’t see her face.

Was this difficult to do in A Piece of the World? Were you able to tap into anything from your own experience?

Other than the central character in your first novel, Sweet Water, who is a sculptor, you haven’t written about the act of artistic creation – or about being an artist’s muse.

What is most compelling about Wyeth’s works? What is the process for developing this inspiration into a novel?.

Do you have any favorite explorations of artist-muse relationship - in literature or any other medium?.

Robert Hughes calls him “America’s uncontested champion pictorial puritan.” What do you see as the painting’s place in American art history?

Wyeth isn’t a painter universally liked by critics but he’s very popular among the general public.

What does it mean to you, and what do you see as its place in American art history?

You write that you became aware of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World in your childhood.

Before doing your research for this novel were you already interested in Andrew Wyeth’s artwork? Or did you pick the story and then start looking into his work?.

Did that give you freedom to write about her in a way that you wouldn’t have had if her face was visible?