Built Environment Wyeth

Every artist has their own interesting background. Each piece they make has its own story. How it was made and the thought that is put into it making this piece of artwork. Even the obstacles that the artists may overcome can give the piece’s life and make them unique. The artists that I picked from the blog were James Castle and Andrew Wyeth. The pieces that I picked from each artist were one of the pieces ‘Built Environment’ made by James Castle and the piece ‘Evening at Kuerners’ made by Andrew Wyeth. Both artists have their own way of expressing themselves through their work. James Castle was amazingly creative with how he made his art. Each piece he made helped express himself since he was unable to do it himself. Any material that he found was the base of his artwork. Making his works seem to be almost childlike or unimportant at first look. Even the material he used to make his pieces made them unlike anything else that I know of. This background alone made each piece incredibly unique. However, since Castle could not write, I could not find any of his works to have a name or a date. But I looked through his artworks, it was hard to pick just one piece. So I ended up picking one of his ‘Built Environment’ pieces. This drawing is on a small piece of what looks like cardboard.
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I felt drawn to this piece immediately based on how his piece seemed more realistic. I picked Wyeth’s ‘Evening at Kuerners’ which was made in 1970. This piece was done with dry brush watercolor on paper. I’d never heard of dry brush watercolor so this was one of the reasons I found this artwork interesting. The other reason I pick this piece was that it looks amazingly realistic. To me this painting looks like a photograph that was taken in the early evening. I base the time of day as early evening because of how the lighting is in the