Tag: Andrew Newell Wyeth
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02 Works, The art of War, Andrew Wyeth and Birds of War, with footnotes
In Soaring, begun in 1942, Wyeth took to the sky to adopt a bird’s-eye view of his surrounding landscape. In this large-scale painting, the viewer hovers with three turkey vultures above a lone house and barn isolated in a vast, empty landscape. The largest vulture, suspended just below the posited viewer. It appears as a…