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Wyeth: Helga Testorf
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Wyeth's work often portrayed a sense of privacy, or even isolation. He concentrated on the beauty of nature near his homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. He ... concentrated on particular models for subjects of his paintings. In Maine, Christina Olsen and Siri Erikson were models for many of his paintings. In Pennsylvania, Helga Testorf was the subject of "the Helga series", a total of 240 paintings and drawings.
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[D]espite the allure of Wyeth's fantastic technical control, these pictures are vacant and a little cold. Helga is presented almost as a still life object. The painter's loving attention to visual truth has dispensed with living truth. The superficial eroticism (a quality endemic to frontal nudes), and the almost intrusive perspicacity of some pictures only temporarily cloak the fact that Helga is stripped of the complexity and depth of her personality.
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Farm Road, part of this exhibit, is an example of the quiet serene Wyeth style. Helga is alone, facing away from the viewer, surrounded by a vast landscape that is both strong and inherently lonely.
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