Wyeth, Andrew

Andrew Dorner Wyeth Research, Andover, Maryland, U.S. 

More often, modern artists use canvas supports for their paintings and coat their canvases with gesso. In 1979, Andrew Wyeth used such a canvas to paint Braids, a portrait of a woman. Interestingly, he used egg tempera paints similar to those used hundreds of years ago. 

In Activity 3.3 you will experiment with nonobjective art using the gesso grounds prepared in Activity 3.2 and egg tempera paint prepared in Activity 2.5. Egg tempera was used by many artists in Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Today, it is still used by some artists, notably Andrew Wyeth. In this technique, egg yolk is mixed with distilled water to form a binder, and a pigment is added to make egg tempera paint, which is applied to a gesso ground. 

You should view works by Andrew Wyeth and the other artists listed above. Also, appropriate parts of the following video about nonobjective art will help to explain this art form ... 

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