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The below artworks are the most important by Andrew Wyeth - that both overview the major creative periods, and highlight the greatest achievements by the artist. The viewer doesn't look down on the crow but instead sees it as if his or her face were pressed to the ground, not far from the creature. The fields surrounding Wyeth's neighbor's house extend well into the distance, and a farm house and trees dot the horizon. The perspectival effect accords the small animal an outsized prominence to its setting, thus suggesting the gravity and importance of its death. Having come across the dead bird during a walk, Wyeth brought the crow back to his studio to study and paint it, so multiple sketches for this painting exist.

Nude painting is an age old artistic tradition from prehistoric times to the present day. It was in ancient Greece that the representation of the nude in art was glorified: the bodily perfection of the gods and the divine could be seen in the statues and the frescoes. The representation of the nude in works of art was, at the time, a very common practice, artists would idealize the body of their models to create a vision of perfect beauty. Throughout the Middle Ages the nude painting was rejected , because of associations to the sins of the flesh, whereas the nude painting took centre stage during the Renaissance in the fifteenth century.

The left leg of La Belle Hollandaise is one of the great limbs in art. It's a heavy thing, laid across a bed, looking rather like the leg of a chicken, with a vast drumstick of thigh and buttock, but taking a stout but more shapely turn below the knee, and ending now entirely human in the elegant point of a toe. You can vividly grasp its outline and mass, feel its tautness and muscular tension. You can grasp its "moral", too; that though not conventionally beautiful, it is magnificent, grandly feminine.

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