did you hear what i said?

sniffyjenkins:

Refuge, Andrew Wyeth

In 1977 art historian Robert Rosenblum was asked to identify the most overrated and the most underrated artist of the 20th century. He provided one name for both: Andrew Wyeth. 

I love that. What Rosenblum was actually saying was that Wyeth was hugely overrated by the general public and hugely underrated by artistic folks. I’ve been looking at his paintings all morning. I love them. They have a stillness, as if they are deeply rooted, and it always feels like there is profound but contained emotion underpinning them, a sort of fundamental truth within each. Even a worn pair of boots, a pile of feathers, has that depth about it. They feel heavy, real. They are so beautiful, but from the inside. I don’t know how else to describe it, for I am not Robert Rosenblum.