Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009
p style=”text-align: center;”img class=”size-medium wp-image-188 aligncenter” title=”witching_hour” src=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/witching_hour-300×293.jpg” alt=”" width=”300″ height=”293″ //pbr/br/Hate the break up the fun of the 2008 Best and Worst of list but I read last night that Andrew Wyeth passed away yesterday at the age of 91. If you don’t know who Andrew Wyeth is you should shut you face in a car door then look him up. He was one of the most brilliant painters span style=”text-decoration: line-through;”of our time/span ever.br/br/Instead of going on and on about how brilliant he was, I am going to supply you with this a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011601420.html?hpid=topnews” target=”_blank”great article/a from the Washington Post and a few pictures of his work. Everyone should recognize the first painting below – Christina’s World. Christina’s World has (unfortunately) became the obligatory Wyeth piece but my favorite is probably The Witching Hour pictured above and below.br/br/I’ll miss you Mr. Wyeth.br/p style=”text-align: center;”a href=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/christinas_world.jpg”img class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-189″ style=”margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border: 0px;” title=”christinas_world” src=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/christinas_world-150×150.jpg” alt=”" width=”150″ height=”150″ //aa href=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/witching_hour1.jpg”img class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-192″ style=”margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; border: 0px;” title=”witching_hour1″ src=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/witching_hour1-150×150.jpg” alt=”" width=”150″ height=”150″ //aa href=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/andrew_wyeth1.jpg”img class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-190″ style=”margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; border: 0px;” title=”andrew_wyeth1″ src=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/andrew_wyeth1-150×150.jpg” alt=”" width=”150″ height=”150″ //aa href=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wyeth_wind_from_the_sea1.jpg”img class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-191″ style=”margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; border: 0px;” title=”wyeth_wind_from_the_sea1″ src=”http://headstatic.com/whitenoise/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wyeth_wind_from_the_sea1-150×150.jpg” alt=”" width=”150″ height=”150″ //a/p
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