- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; 1st Edition edition (31 Dec 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0810917882
- ISBN-13: 978-0810917880
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 24.6 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 312,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The official catalogue of the exhibition of Wyeth's acclaimed series of painting's.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just extraordinary paintings,
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This review is from: Andrew Wyeth: the Helga Pictures (Hardcover)
A very good illustrated catalogue of Wyeth's epic series of pictures, dating from their first exhibition. Nicely presented with very good reproductions of the tempera and watercolours, and some nice close ups of detail. As a catalogue there is a lot of information about the purchase of the series that now reads as rather self congratulatory, and the main essay doesn't for me quite escape the problem of providing a critical commentary on a painter whose hyper realism is so palpably significant, but artistically unfashionable.As often the drawings are a disappointment since the reproduction of most is absolutely tiny, and of course Wyeth's detail is really the point here. I'd give it five stars for the colour reproductions but you'll constantly curse the stinginess of the authors in not reproducing any of these beautiful drawings at a size where you can actually see them properly. When will authors/publishers start giving drawings the respect they deserve?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An extraordinary project,
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This review is from: Andrew Wyeth: the Helga Pictures (Hardcover)
Andrew Wyeth is less well known in the UK than in the States. But readers who know nothing about him will still be enriched by this large-format, meticulously produced book.Here is the story of an artist's work with a single model over a period of years. Helga is not the artist's wife, nor is it relevant to ask what the relationship is between them, except as artist and model, for the pictures concentrate entirely on the visual. Nor is Helga a great beauty, just a reasonably attractive woman of mature years. What makes the series exceptional is Wyeth's intense, trance-like concentration on every aspect of her appearance. Wyeth is a realist, even a hyper-realist, but here we see the framework which underlies his ultra-detailed exhibition paintings. There are tempera paintings that show every downy hair on the skin, luminous watercolours that explore the shapes of light and dark in sunlight, moody pencil studies, classic nudes, interiors and figure-in-the-landscape compositions. Helga is seen from every angle, in painful detail or as a flurry of eloquently sketched lines. It is this variation of treatments of the same subject which make the book so fascinating, especially to an artist. The text forms only a small proportion of the book, and discusses the works rather than the painter; it is rather in awe of Wyeth but worth reading all the same.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspirational,
This review is from: Andrew Wyeth: the Helga Pictures (Hardcover)
Andrew Wyeth was a well respected artist but in these drawing he reveals the tenderness of his relationship with his model who went on to care for him in his old age. The drawings are exquisitand touched my heart.
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