http://www.beaufortcountynow.com Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:52:44 EDT http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/248/30/every-picture-tells-a-story-don-t-it-part-viii.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/248/30/every-picture-tells-a-story-don-t-it-part-viii.html Downtown Washington, North Carolina is a Regional Mecca for Art

This article is born out of two purposes: To give a short expose of some of the new art that was on display in the Washington, NC area and to finally give some exposure through our publication of some shows I attended since the first of the year, 2010. I intended to do 3 separate articles but time did not permit anything other than what I can offer at this juncture … and since this is art, and pretty fine art at that ̷... Read More]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:40:54 EST http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/117/30/andrew-wyeth-is-dead.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/117/30/andrew-wyeth-is-dead.html Andrew Wyeth May Have Passed But His Art Will Live On

When I was much younger, back in the early 1970's, and trying to find my way in this world of good and bad art, music and movies, I searched for living artists of quality to guide me as I sought my own path, and I discovered Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth was already middle aged and had produced some of his best work, including but not limited to; Christina's World, Evening at Kuerners, Master Bedroom, Karl and Winter 1946.

Winter 1946, a se... Read More]]> Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:42:10 EST http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/90/30/painting-lies.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/90/30/painting-lies.html As creator of the art program at what would become the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Claude Howell is considered the city’s father of the arts and possibly the most important figure in native art of our state.

Claude Howell (1915-1997) died in the same bedroom in which he had been born 82 years earlier — in number 53 at The Carolina Apartments in Wilmington. The apartment was the anchor for the rich life of a talented artist, academic, and teacher. Howell said he paint... Read More]]> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:54:24 EST http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/29/30/andrew-wyeth-s-helga-series.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/29/30/andrew-wyeth-s-helga-series.html Andrew Wyeth’s Helga: a Compulsive Fetish or his Best Work

Probably somewhere in between is the best answer. For all who are not familiar with Wyeth and his Helga Series, I shall endeavor to explain it simply as 240 pieces of work (mostly water color studies, some spontaneous sketch studies in monochromatic mediums and a smaller number of finished egg tempera canvases) of one woman, Helga Testorf, that were made between 1971 and 1985.

Andrew Wyeth had met Helga as a young 32 year old... Read More]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:08:15 EDT