Wyeth's artwork mostly all follows
the same stylistic approach. This
painting, Turkey Pond, reveals in hard-edge Photo-Realism a similar visual
construction of a figure lost within a landscape. The landscape, it should be observed, is
painted with painstakingly precise detail, to the point at which nearly every
blade of grass is visible. The result is
a visual feast for viewers, even though the subject of the painting contains
very few elements: it's merely a man walking through a field toward a pond in
the distance. Hard-Edge painting,
however, turns these simplistic scenes into masterworks of art. This painting, too, contains a subtle
poignancy to it that balances the stark realism of Wyeth's brushwork and
technique.
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