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Preface
In the 70s and 80s, there was a well-known realistic painter in the United States, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gold Presidential Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal by US Presidents Kennedy, Reagan and Bush respectively.
His works have also been collected by many museums and galleries, and a painting has even been auctioned for a high price of 40 million.
Many realistic painters in mainland China were influenced by his painting style.
However, such a famous painter secretly painted the nudes of female neighbors behind his wife's back for 15 years, and painted a total of 247 nude paintings.
Who the hell is he?
Why don't you paint your wife, but choose a female neighbor for such a private painting, and you haven't even changed a person for 15 years.
Could it be that there is something special about this female neighbor?
Nude female neighbor
In 1986, Time magazine and Newsweek in the United States both used the headline "Wise's Shocking Secret" and no longer chose the portrait of the young Helga on the cover, which was intended to arouse people's desires.
The full name of "Wise" mentioned in the title is Ander Wise , who is an important contemporary neorealist painter in the United States, whose works are mainly watercolor and tempera paintings, and are known for being close to the theme of civilian life.
As soon as this news came out, everyone was shocked.
Many people didn't expect a realistic painter to paint this kind of nude, and just when everyone thought that the woman in the painting was Andrew Wise's wife, everyone realized that the face was relatively unfamiliar.
The media also quickly discovered this suspicion, so they ran downstairs to Andrew Wise, ready to dig up the revelations.
But when the media was squatting at Andrew Wise's house, the appearance of the female neighbor next door stunned everyone.
There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.
It turns out that the heroine in Andrew Wise's painting is not a wife, but a female neighbor next door.
After receiving this information, the media no longer waited for Andrew Wise's answer, and began to hype up it with the headline "Wise's shocking secret".
Then Andrew's 15 years, the information of secretly painting a naked female neighbor was also exposed.
It turned out that Andrew had been painting all these years, and he was looking for excuses to go out without his wife.
Once he managed to get out, he sneaked to the female neighbor's house, entered the secret studio, and began to create nude paintings.
And the female neighbor who was favored by Andrew was named Helge, a German and a mother of 4 children.
After the end of World War II, she followed her husband to live in the United States and became Andrew's neighbor.
But the two met at Andrew's sister's house.
At the time, Andrew's sister needed to be taken care of due to physical reasons, and Helge was the babysitter who took care of Andrew's sister.
During a visit to his sister, Andrew met Helg and was attracted to her unique temperament.
After talking, Andrew found out that Helg lived next door to him.
Soon after they met, Andrew approached Helg and asked her to be his model.
Andrew is a well-known painter in his own right, and he is very lucky to be his model.
But when he learned that he was going to be Andrew's nude model, Helg still hesitated.
But it seemed like a great thing to be able to contribute to art, and Helga finally agreed to Andrew's request.
Andrew also met with Helger's husband when he started painting and asked for his permission.
Helger's husband didn't know that Andrew wanted his wife to be a nude model, so he readily agreed.
But Helge didn't tell her husband that she was a nude model, she thought it was a very pure thing and nothing would happen, so she didn't want to make a fuss, so she didn't tell her husband.
And Andrew has the same idea as Helger, and his wife doesn't approve of him painting nude models, so he doesn't want to make trouble, so he also chooses to deceive.
Both of them had their own careful thoughts and began a 15-year secret creation.
In Andrew's paintings, the subtle changes of Helga at each moment are recorded.
There is Helge's shy expression when he first painted, and there is also Helger's proud figure despite his age.
It looks like a nude picture, but it gives people a feeling that it cannot be blasphemed.
Andrew uses lines to outline every subtle change in Helga, from the shyness and brilliance of his youth to the godlessness of old age.
Putting these paintings together, it is as if you can see what the years have carved on Helge's body year after year.
Many people wonder if there is anything indescribable between the two of them in such a long period of nude creation, except for painting and being painted.
After all, in the face of a temperamental nude, no one should be unimpressed, right?
Just like in "The Titanic", the young painter Jack painted a nude painting of the aristocratic woman Ruth, and when the painting was completed, the two became entangled.
And Andrew and Helger have been together for 15 years, painted more than 200 paintings, and the relationship between the two is still a neighbor, which makes the relationship between the two confusing.
But in the face of these, Andrew behaved very calmly.
After that, he opened an exhibition and exhibited more than 200 nude paintings.
And his behavior is undoubtedly telling everyone: "I am frank and open." ”
If Andrew is such a noble artist, why would he be obsessed with painting nudes?
It turns out that it all stems from the obsession in my heart.
Why draw nudes?
Those who know Andrew Wise must have seen such a painting "Christina".
In a desolate meadow, there were only two lonely houses and a disheveled woman blown by the wind.
The woman wears a pink dress very much, but unfortunately she is a polio patient.
The wind was blowing, and her hair was blown messy, but she still supported the ground with her slender arms, desperately crawling in the direction of home.
This work has been sought after by the world since its first generation, and has even been collected by museums in the United States.
With this work, Andrew's popularity is getting bigger and bigger.
But with the development of the times, people's aesthetics have changed slightly, and many abstract paintings have been sought after by the market, and Andrew fell off the altar for a while.
However, Andrew did not follow the trend towards abstraction, but more determined to explore realism, and he must leave behind a masterpiece that shocked the world.
And Andrew's obsession became even crazier with the death of his father.
Andrew's father was also a painter and had a deep influence on Andrew.
When Andrew was a child, he couldn't go to school due to his weak constitution, so his father left Andrew at home to educate him personally.
Under the influence of his father, Andrew also fell in love with painting, so his father became Andrew's enlightenment teacher.
Ben only wanted to cultivate Andrew's artistic recuperation, but he did not expect that he was very talented in painting, and after a period of guidance from his father, the technical level of painting even surpassed that of his father.
In order to help Andrew be more confident, his father thoughtfully held a small art exhibition for Andrew in the town.
In just two days, Andrew's paintings were sold out and became a word-of-mouth painter in town.
This played a big role in Andrew's subsequent confidence in painting.
Andrew has always been grateful for his father's training, so he has always hoped that he can be the pride of his father.
But before Andrew could make greater achievements, Andrew's father died in an accident.
Because of his father's death, Andrew was decadent for a long time.
From his "Winter of 1946", you can see Andrew's deep affection for his father.
The hillside is desolate, and there are only traces of wheels on the yellow grass, where my father was in a car accident.
A young man in black stumbled over from the back mountain, his expression was a little trance, a little confused, and even the tilt of his body could allude to his collapsed sky.
This realistic painting is a portrayal of Andrew's experience.
So, in order to be the pride of his father, he vowed to become a painter who shocked the world and left a shocking work for future generations.
And painting nudes is one way he came up with it.
Especially when seeing Helger's unique temperament, Andrew's long-cherished wish for many years seems to have found someone who can implement it.
Many people may wonder, is it true that Andrew has only painted nude female neighbors for 15 years?
In fact, for an artist who is obsessed with leaving a shocking work, the nude model is just a good reference "object" in their eyes.
And Andrew isn't just drawing neighbors for the first time.
Among Andrew's works is "Marriage", which shows a sleeping Helen couple who are Andrew's neighbors.
Mr. and Mrs. Helen said that Andrew was an early bird and had spent three days a week hanging out in their house for many years, and after they got to know each other, Mr. and Mrs. Helen told Andrew where they kept the keys and allowed him to come in whenever he wanted.
This also has the picture of Helen and his wife sleeping soundly, that is, the painting "Marriage".
From all this, it can be seen that Andrew is really an artist who is obsessed with creating.
epilogue
"I hardly ask about the world, and when my life is over, I can say that painting is my only hobby, and nothing else."
That's what Andrew said, and that's how he lived his life.
He has always lived in the countryside and gets along with more down-to-earth people.
In his words: "To be a man, you can't forget your roots and where your roots are." ”
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