{"id":961,"date":"2012-01-31T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T08:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=961"},"modified":"2012-01-31T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T08:09:53","slug":"wyeth-integration-and-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Wyeth &#8211; (Integration and Parallels)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_962\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-962\" title=\"1959 - The Mill - 13.7 x 22.5 in - watercolour - reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced-484x300.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Wyeth - The Mill - 1959 - 35 x 57 cm - watercolour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wyeth&#8217;s work is far beyond figurative considerations, engaging with us on so many levels, and in this post I will focus on his composition, which is remarkable.\u00a0 His integration and the wonderful movement he provides with parallels is very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>First to the very sensitive rhythm of parallels he created with a diagonal board in the fence, the eave of the roof just above and the roof line of the building behind <em>(see detail).<\/em>\u00a0 These guide us to the focus of the painting which is the dark window and to the flight of the birds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced-22.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-967\" title=\"1959 - The Mill - 13.7 x 22.5 in - watercolour - reduced (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1959-The-Mill-13.7-x-22.5-in-watercolour-reduced-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now to his poetic integration of the birds with the tree and the fence post as well as the top curve of the pickets, is a superb example of how graceful and sensitive compositional structure can be.\u00a0 You either take the path of the post to the strong rectangular shape of the foreground which will return you to the parallels.\u00a0 The other path is absolutely fantastic!\u00a0 Follow the birds to the tree and then along the top of the pickets.\u00a0 We are then guided to the roof line returning us to the flight of the birds.\u00a0 I hope you can sense the wonderful shape, or loop, which also gently returns us to the focus.\u00a0 It is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>I must also mention the triangle shape projecting up from the large dark foreground shape pointing into the building at the right. Can you feel how it parallels harmonizes with the triangles all the buildings?<\/p>\n<p>This is visual poetry!\u00a0 And there is more for you to discover.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyeth&#8217;s work is far beyond figurative considerations, engaging with us on so many levels, and in this post I will focus on his composition, which is remarkable.\u00a0 His integration and the wonderful movement he provides with parallels is very impressive. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,18,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}