Andrew Wyeth has been criticized for being too-realistic in his style. Being someone who promotes the philosophy of modern art and who also prefers paintings that are non-representational, I love his work. I agree with him in his following quote, that some people might miss the overall-feeling of the work.
They're seeing only one side of it. They don't see the tone. If you can combine realism and abstraction, you've go something terrific."
-Andrew Wyeth (quoted in Modern American Painting, 1970, Time Life Books.)
Some realist painters blindly paint exactly what they see, or try to anyways. Although Wyeth's work is ultra-realistic, to me his paintings each have an underlying composition of emotional tone. An obvious kind of foreboding or tension that you can see in the work. So I completely agree with his words above, and many would agree that he does create terrific paintings using realism and abstraction.
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