Artists on Film: The Real World of Andrew Wyeth

Portrait of artist Andrew Wyeth, who has been called the prototypical American painter, focuses on the landscape and people of Pennsylvania and Maine, the two places where Wyeth lived all his life and from which he draws his inspiration. Schooled in the technique of the Renaissance, Wyeth discusses his realistic style in the face of nonobjective modernism, and says, 'I am so conservative I'm radical.' A magnificent portrait of a superb representational painter and made with the cooperation of the Royal Academy. The artist talks extensively about his use of tempera and dry brush and about his favourite subjects and motifs which were sensitively filmed.