A world-renowned painter who was even awarded the badge three times by the President of the United States, such a figure was glamorous at all times, but it wasn't until the story behind Andrew's creation was revealed that the world began to think differently about him.
After Andrew's oil painting was exposed, people found out that a respected great painter actually carried his wife behind his back and secretly spent fifteen years on his neighbor's wife, and he was still in a state of sincerity.
We don't know if the two sides have crossed the final bottom line in this process, but the fact that the wife is behind his back alone cannot interpret the pure artistic concept.
Why did Andrew make such a move after he became famous all over the world?
If he hadn't made it public this time, maybe such a secret would have been hidden, and such a result should be good news for his followers, after all, no one wants their idol to be contaminated with the dust of the world, and this result is even more cruel to his wife than us.
Next, let's walk into the fog behind Andrew's creation.
Compared with ordinary people, he did not go to much school since he was a child, but was nurtured by his father, and Andrew had his own hobbies early, which was titled Andrew Wise on December 31, 2010 in China Culture Daily: Painting Expresses Homesickness In the two weeks of school, in fact, there is an expression.
Recording the beauty in front of him with simple lines on the drawing board, so in this field, Andrew can be said to have been deeply involved in this field since he was a child, and it also brought him later achievements.
By chance, Andrew came into contact with the works of Botticelli in the Renaissance, and the artistic portrait of the woman in the painting fascinated his eyes.
As a realist person, if he could have entered this field earlier, perhaps his achievements would have been far more than that, and his subsequent paintings were based on a work "Secret Model" published by Time magazine in the United States.
However, at this stage, the creative methods of the United States began to change, and Andrew's realism gradually came out of the audience's sight, and people were more willing to pay attention to the art brought by abstraction.
Andrew doesn't care about the change of trends, he only knows that he has to do a huge artistic creation to record the changes of a woman in a realistic way.
But at this time, Andrew encountered his first problem, his wife who had been with him for many years could not accept her husband to paint other women's nudes, and Andrew was also very distressed about this situation.
In this context, Andrew naturally can't have a fixed mannequin, so the plan in his mind can be described as being delayed again and again.
At a chance meeting, Andrew went to his sister's house as a guest, where Andrew met a woman who had made his own artistic creation, she was Helger, and after some in-depth communication, he found that this woman was still his neighbor.
As a German, who followed her husband to the United States after World War II, they did not have a good means of livelihood, so the couple often traveled to make ends meet.
In such a coincidence, Andrew realized that this was an opportunity specially arranged by God, and if he didn't seize the opportunity this time, maybe he would not be able to complete his artistic dream in this life.
So Andrew found his neighbor Helge and shared his thoughts and ideas.
At first, Helg was very excited, after all, there was an extra income to come, but when Andrew said that he wanted to create nude, Helg fell into obsession.
She was reluctant to take off her clothes in front of a strange man, and when Andrew thought things were at an impasse again, Helg found him again.
It turned out that under economic constraints, Helga had to think about the job.
In order to make her husband support her, Helge told her husband about the part-time job, and her husband also expressed his agreement, but in the process of communication between the couple, Helge concealed the details of the nudity.
As a result, Andrew began to frequently visit Helge's house in the name of creation, and his wife did not show any suspicion of this, because Andrew told his wife that he was creating normal realism and some flowers and birds.
In order to dispel his wife's doubts, Andrew would even bring back some works of flowers and birds on a regular basis to confuse his wife, and as for the works with Helge's nude, Andrew stayed at the neighbor's house.
In order to avoid her husband's discovery, Helge hid these paintings in the basement, and it was under this tacit understanding that Andrew secretly painted his neighbors for fifteen years, during which time he created 240 works.
Starting from the active life of Helge in middle age, he slowly recorded the changes of each curve of life on the body, and we can see from the subsequent paintings that Andrew's realistic approach has once again reached a new level.
Although it is a set of body art creations, people feel the passage of life in this painting, and if Andrew had not submitted these works, neither his wife nor Helga would have had any troubles.
But Andrew was so pleased with his work that he was eager to share his achievements with the world.
The joy of this moment may have broken through his fifteen years of restraint, and when Helga's image appeared in the magazine, Andrew gained unprecedented attention, and at the same time troubles entered his family and even Helg's home.
When the reporter came to Andrew's cottage to learn the secret behind the painting, by chance it was discovered that the woman next door was exactly the same as the protagonist of the painting, so the reporters who interviewed Andrew began to flock to Helge's house, trying to open the secret of this artistic creation through this woman.
Then there was the story above, and there were even a lot of scandals.
But Andrew didn't care about this, he knew that he was not afraid of shadows, he didn't care about the outside world's messages, and he also firmly believed that his wife and Helg would gradually come out of the shadow of the messages.
After becoming famous, Andrew once again attracted the attention of public opinion, and at this time he could be said to have the qualifications to go to the big city, but Andrew did not do that, but continued to stay in the original country cabin.
In response to the doubts from the outside world, Andrew just smiled and said that only in the countryside can there be traces of what he wants, where he can better record the flow of life, and every grass and tree here is stained with traces of art.
From here, we can see that Andrew may really be a pure artist, in his eyes only the purity of creation, as for the outside world he doesn't care, he just wants to use the brush to keep his artistic inspiration!
Information sources:
China Culture Daily – December 31, 2010 with the title Andrew Wise: Painting Expresses Homesickness and Goes to School for Two Weeks in a Lifetime
Andrew Wise – Time Magazine's "The Secret Model"