The following blogs cover the beaches around Pals, Begur, Tamariu, Llafranc, Calella and Palamos.
Those who have already visited the area of Begur, Pals and Palafrugell before, know the beautiful diversity of the beaches in the direct vicinity. They are absolutely unique for Spain, and the one is even more beautiful and pleasant than the other.
The best aspect about it is that they are all different and have their own unique characteristics. You will find beaches with fine white sand, others with small pebbles or containing rocks and plateaus only. Some beaches are especially suitable for small children, while others, by definition are not. However, there are shared characteristics also: they are all located in the midst of wonderful green surroundings, with many pine trees, and they often have a comfortable sheltered location. Another shared characteristic: during summer it is difficult to park your car during certain moments of the day.
Really, we recommend you to visit another beach every day! However, we don't mind to describe all beaches to you, so everyone can make their own decision. We will place them in order for you starting in the north and going down towards the south, with in this first blog the beaches of Playa de Pals.
This might be the most tranquil beach of the region, especially when you walk towards the mouth of the river Rec de Molí. To come here, you drive all the way around the golf course of Golf Platja de Pals and at the end you follow the road to the right. The beach is elongated, wide and of reasonably fine white sand. Also here is a large parking lot, which makes parking your car relatively easy. During summer there is lifeguard supervision and there are several nice beach bars like Ala Brava and Um Pals.
Additionally you can take sailing or surfing lessons here via Windsurf-Pals, both for adults and for children. Here you can also rent supplies for SUP, kayak, surfing, windsurfing or even a bike if you do not want to go out on the water.
Something that you can't do everywhere, but you can do on this beach, is rent beach beds. Furthermore, aside from the lifeguards there is also a post from the Red Cross and there are toilets available.
The other beach of Playa de Pals is Platja Gran. This beach is nearest to the centre of Platja the Pals and connected to Platja del Racó and Illja Roja in Begur.
This beach is approximately 1.5 kilometres long and about 600 metres wide. Also here, beautiful fine white sand and enough space for children. The water quality in Playa de Pals is regularly tested and keeps coming out of the test as excellent.
You can swim everywhere, except from the enclosed areas where boats come to and from the beach. Just like Platja del Grau there is supervision and a post from the Red Cross. Toilets are available.
A popular restaurant here, located directly next to the beach, is Sol i Mar. While you enjoy delicious tapas, a cold white wine, or a great lunch, your children will play in the white sand directly in front of you.
In our previous blog, we told you about two beaches at Pals: Platja del Grau and Platja Gran. Together, they form a long and wide sandy beach that is perfect for playing and sunbathing. You can practise all kinds of sports. Bring your own equipment, or hire it on the spot. As a bonus, this beach has a great view of the islands just off the coast of l'Estartit, the Illes Medes.
You can reach this island group from l'Estartit or even l'Escala on a glass-bottomed boat. But the Medes Islands are also great for diving! They are a protected nature reserve, and thanks to their many underwater grottos and caverns, enhanced by the clear waters and white sand, you can admire a great variety of beautiful fish.
Without your noticing it, Platja Gran in Pals transforms into Platja del Racó, in an area belonging to Begur. So, it is more or less the same beach, but with a different owner, and therefore a different name. One thing is the same: beautiful white sand and a lot of space. This part of the beach is home to a small chiringuito, Spanish for a small beach kiosk/bar, called Guingueta in Catalan. It sells chilled refreshments and, most of the time, ice creams and snacks such as crisps or a toastie, which is called a Bikini here.
The end of Platja del Racó is marked by a large rock formation. At this point, you have two choices. One is to walk up the trail that runs along the coast in the direction of Sa Riera. This path, known as the Camí de Ronda, is lovely, not too long and affords splendid views.
If you prefer, you can walk across the rocks to cross over to the next beach, Illa Roja - the Red Rock, in other words. This rock is a landmark of the area and is just a small distance away from this beach, which has a splendid location, hidden amongst the tall rocks and partly obscured by Illa Roja. For this reason, Illa Roja is a nudist beach. It lies behind the rocks, and the walking trail is right on top of the rocks, which makes it an idyllic spot with much privacy.
Just to remind you, to get to Sa Riera, you must take the clifftop path, the Camí de Ronda. Trails called Camí de Ronda ('the roundway') are found all along the Costa Brava. They will take you to the loveliest parts of this coast. Some of these roundways are incorporated into the GR-92, the long-distance walking trail, which starts at Portbou on the French border and takes you all the way down to the Ebro Delta in southern Catalonia. This little trail between Pals and Tossa de Mar is the loveliest stretch by far. In this part of the country, the 'Camí de Ronda' paths are very suitable for families. The trails are varied and can be challenging, but you can seek shade under the pine trees, and there are plenty of opportunities for a refreshing dip in the sea.
The path leads you to Sa Riera beach. Sa Riera used to be a tiny fishing village with only a few houses. It remains a small-scale resort, and the fishing boats are still drawn high up onto the beach. However, they are now mainly used by private owners, who use them for a trip along the splendid coast towards Sa Tuna.
Despite operating on a small scale, Sa Riera is the largest beach in the municipality of Begur. It also has the most amenities. There is a chiringuito (for an explanation, refer to our description of Pals). You will also find a number of restaurants, small shops and hotels with only a few rooms. Take a seat on one of the outdoor terraces, enjoy the ambience and tuck into tapas. You can also hire a canoe or pedalo, or even an SUP (stand-up paddle board).
If you carry on exploring Sa Riera beach, when you come the end, turn the corner. A narrow path, only suitable for those on foot, takes you to the tiny beach of S'Antiga. Only slightly bigger than a postage stamp, it makes a great spot for sunbathing at the end of a summer's day, as it is sheltered from any sea winds.
After the big beach of Sa Riera and the hidden mini-beach s´Antiga, a part ofrocky coast follows, where you cannot or barely get to the water and in mostplaces, it is not allowed since a part of the coast here is a protected area,mostly the part in the front of the coast that is under water.
A few kilometres further away you get to the recess that is called Aiguafreda.The place is located beautifully protected in between two protruding rockformations, including Cap Sa Sal. You cannot really say this is a beach, asthere is almost no sand, but instead there are several platforms where you cansunbathe perfectly. The water in the bay is crystal clear and blue, whichproduces some beautiful pictures. At Aiguafreda it is also possible to launch aboat or a jet ski because a trailer ramp is located here.
On top of all that, there is a shower, a toilet and a parking place. Catering facilityis also present, there is an amazing bar directly at the beach where you canalso get tapas and other dishes. The bar is called El Vermut and it hasmagnificent view of the bay.
30 meters away from the beach is where you will find Hostel Sa Rascasse. Itwas built as a holiday home in 1916 when the bay was still a private bay. Laterit was made into the hostel, restaurant and diving centre it is today. You can possibly rent a tasteful room, but you can for sure eat a delicious meal,especially the fish dishes.
When you are done eating, you can walk back to the beach and take thebeautiful coastal path to the right of the bay. Via this amazing path you can walkall the way, along the coastline, to Sa Tuna, the next bay. It is not far, but forsure beautiful! When you look to the right you will see wonderful villas and, onthe right, you have the sea. It will be a 20-minute walk at most. In the distanceyou can see an impressive hotel/apartment complex of Cap Sa Sal. It was builtin the sixties as a luxurious hotel, but these days it is has changed into mostlyapartments with impressive view.
To the bend of the road to Sa Tuna you get the possibility to climb on the rocksfor the best view of this stunning mini-fishing village. The beach is in gravel, sothere is no soft sand here, however you can sit by the sea and swim in the,once again, crystal clear water. On the mini seafront promenade there are a fewrestaurants. at the beach you can find the well-known Hostel Sa Tuna, withdelicious fresh fish. They also have a few rooms, so stay over because themorning here is stunning! The sun comes up slowly above the rocks and puts abeautiful yellow glow on the houses in the bay.
Other cute restaurants here are El Furió, also on the sea promenade. Twentymeters up the small street, you arrive at the very nice restaurant called EsCatius. You can eat here outside in the street at a small table and if you arelucky there is live music and the Cuban ambiance of food and music will appear.
Platja Fonda is a peculiar beach close to Fornells. The beach consists of pebbles and a tiny bit of sand. The beach is mainly used by the locals here, since the beach is not a very touristic place. It is very wild and not discovered by many people. The beach is surrounded by a big wall of rocks, so it has a lot of shadow, especially during the sunset. The beach is only reachable by stairs, which are in good condition but are steep. The access is a bit difficult to find, so that is why the beach is still unspoilt. This is also why the beach is called, "deep beach", Pl atja Fonda. The beach also has a lot of rocks you can use to jump off of and you can do a great amount of snorkelling since the water here is amazing.
The beach is very busy, especially in august, since it is the beach where are the local people go. If you want a good spot, you can best go early. A lot of people suggest before 10:30 in the morning.
There are no facilities since it is just a local beach. Only in summer there is a small car that sells some drinks, but you can best take your own drinks and food.
The pebbles can get really hot if they are in the sun, so remember to take your own flipflops that you can wear while walking on the pebbles.
The beach is 130 meters long and 35 meters wide so there is a lot of space, just make sure you get a good spot since it can get really busy. The beach is really shallow for the first few steps, but after this it falls really quickly. The ocean is deep, so it is perfect for people who love to swim in oceans. It is known to be for people who want to escape the comfort and touristic places for a while and just enjoy the nature. There are parking spots nearby, but this can get busy. The water here is not as crystal-clear as at the other bays, but this doesn't mean that the blue water is not nice.
There is also an abandoned house on Cap de Rubi was owned by Dr. Arruga, a catalan ophthalmologist who was staying in Begur. Over there is also the coastal path that leads to Fornells and the harbour of Fornells.
To make a conclusion, the beach here is unspoilt and wild, the water is beautiful, and it is amazing place if you want to escape the tourism. However, don't forget to bring your flipflops, water and food, and it can get busy in summer. Aside from all of that, this beach is a guaranteed perfect day.
Fornells is a small village, which has beautiful coves, and holds a beautiful harbour. The village is an original place with the original beauty still intact, as it is surrounded by pine trees and it is at the beautiful, crystal clear sea. The village has an amazing harbour which is one of its main features since you can walk to the amazing coves via a coastal path from here on out. These coves are perfect to swim, relax and sunbathe. The harbour itself is small but in summer it is filled with boats.
When you walk to the south from the coastal path you will be heading towards Aiguablava, where you will first pass Cala port de ses Orats, the first cove, where you can lie down on the fine sand next to the stunning sea that is perfect for swimming. This beach is 15 meters long and 10 meters wide, so it is not big however, it is really calming and nice.
When you continue the path, you will then pass Cala d´en Malaret, which is also made up of fine sand, but the cove is a bit bigger than Cala port de ses Orats, since it is 17 meters long and 15 meters wide. When you are relaxing in the cove, that is surrounded by majestic rocks, you will have a stunning view on the beach of Aiguablava and the luxurious hotel. Both these coves have an amazing opportunity to observe the underwater life in the crystal-clear water. Further along the coastal path you will arrive at Cala Port d'Esclanyà; a cove with pebbles both in and out of the water. The beach is however way longer; 85 meter long and 15 meters wide. Along the whole coastal path, you will see houses which look like they come straight out of a painting.
If you decide to walk the path to the north starting at the harbour, you will walk in a small tunnel which is dug out of the mountain. This tunnel will lead you to the n´Estasia cove. This creek is 20 meters long but only 5 meters wide, so it is not big. From this beautiful cove you will be able to see Cap Rubí, an impressive rock with a beautiful villa on top named the Dr. Arruga Villa. This small but beautiful consists of pebbles in and out of the water. When you go back to the start point you can also find a possibility to relax.
Close to the harbour there is a small platform which is perfect for sunbathing and take a dive in the crystal-clear water. The waves are calm and the water is crystal clear. From here you also have an amazing view on the mountain ( as you can see in the picture) which is covered in beautiful green trees and white houses.
To conclude, Fornells is a beautiful, small village with an amazing harbour and a beauty that can not easily be found in different villages because of the amazing location with the pine trees and the beautiful sea. You can also walk to some amazing coves from the visit. This amazing village deserves an amazing visit.


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Putting 'Danny Boy' to Rest
Desiree Cooper
Marc Sanchez
A.J. and Branden
(Branden Reeves)
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"Danny Boy" -- The Muppet Version
(The Muppet Show)
A.J. O'Neil: This weekend, we'll have two microphones set up. While one person or group is performing, the next group or person will be on standby. As soon as the person that is on, is finished, the next person's ready to go. And we'll do that over and over and over and over and over.
"Danny Boy" -- Cher
(Cher)
We have rock bands, we have jazz, we have swing, we have marching bands, choruses. We have a whole family of 18, ranging in age from four months old up into their 80s, all with kazoos. We have a 14-piece madrigal group of women who are going to be performing it in their own way. God help us all.
"Danny Boy" -- Keith Jarrett
(Keith Jarrett)
When my father died, looking back, I think he knew when he was going to die. He had been in and out of hospitals his entire adult life. The last night of his life, he went over to my mother's sister's house and helped them move a dishwasher. And that was one of the nights that all four of my brothers and I were playing baseball together on the same team at Lazenby Field in Berkley, Mich., which was walking distance from the house where he lived. He got to see us all play baseball that night, and he was in his glory when he got to see his sons play sports. He loved it.
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As I was growing up, my father's favorite song, or one of them, was "Danny Boy." And I would sing that song when I was practicing to learn it for a "Danny Boy" singing contest for a local radio station. I thought if there was anything my father would love, I would give him that song. When they made arrangements, the church said they'd provide an organist for me, and if I could tell them what key or what notes to sing it in, they would be able to play along with me. The organist said it would be fine. He'd wait for me to start singing, and he'd join in.
So the time came, and my father's coffin was to the right of me, and I was over by the choir. The organist was sitting, waiting to start playing, and I just started singing:
"Oh Danny Boy, the pipes the pipes are calling.
From glen to glen and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone and all the leaves have fallen.
It's you, it's you must go and I must fight.
But come ye back when summer's in the middle.
Or when the valley's flushed and white with snow.
I will be there in sunshine or in shadow.
Oh, Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so."
And the organist didn't play. I thought, "Wow, what did I do wrong?" I looked out, and people were sniffling and crying and I had made it through without crying. I was surprised.
I asked the organist later, "Why didn't you join? What was it that I did?"
And he said, "It was too beautiful. I couldn't interrupt it. Your father would be proud."
By Karen Wilhelm
From Dearborn Heights, MI, 11/10/2008
A book about the 2008 Danny Boy marathon is in the works and will come out in February 2009 - just in time for another Danny Boy Marathon. The book is called "In Sunlight or in Shadow" and it had contributions from more than 50 of the participants. It had turned from a fun event into an experience of community, with heart. That's what people most wanted the world to know.
By Clark Kent
From Detroit, MI, 03/17/2008
At 4am this morning I stopped in at AJ's. Things were going strong. A bunch of EMO rockers experimented with incarnations of Danny Boy. Eyes glazed with caffeinated exhaustion they told they had been playing all night as needed. Before I left at 5:30am they did versions comparable to Ministry, Joy Division, Tom Waits and U2. Other acts included a gentleman with a walker who sang once then came back and played the harmonica; an Irish looking gentleman rendered a Bing Crosby version; the sound man did Chuck Berry; the video tech sang Karaoke. At 4:45am the video crew from WDIV's Channel 4 showed up and filmed the sound man. At 5am as WWJ news radio arrived a saxophone player began tastefully playing Jazz. WWJ interviewed one of the organizers as a woman was on stage rocking out with her guitar.
AJ - Thank you!! World record or not you have created a wonderful moment.
By Robert Johnson
From Livonia, MI, 03/17/2008
I spent Sunday afternoon @ AJ's with my brother Rich Johnson and my musician buddies John Sallis, Christina Monroe, Shamra Clark and Ed Berger. It was magical! We sang a traditional Danny Boy, then a jazz, folk and blues version. What a great place . . . God Love ya AJ, Brandon, Brian and the rest of the crew!!!
By judy caddy
From south lyon, MI, 03/16/2008
Our madrigal group, the Twelfth Night Singers, orinating in Royal Oak and Ferndale, sang in the marathon yesterday.....as a group, solos, duets, quartets, as a dramatic reading, with kazoos, etc. It was a most memorable day for us. Our group has been together for over 28 years and through these years we have lost people very near and dear to us....including members of the group. It was an honor for us to be able to partipate. Thanks AJ for putting this together!
From MI, 03/16/2008
My husband Mike just got home from AJ's (it's almost 9:00 am) and reports that the night was magic. AJ and Ted Berlinghof ran the midnight-to-dawn shift and got all sorts of different performers together in impromptu combinations, leading a whistling and bird-call version himself. AJ was there except for about a 2-hour nap and surely his father was watching along with all the other Irelanders in heaven.
AJ has also written a book based on his forebears who fled the Irish potato famine and made their way to Northern Michigan. We hope to publish it later this year. The Danny Boy marathon will make a perfect epilog.
Thanks for covering the story.

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Rebecca Kirkpatrick
Associate Pastor for Adult Education & Mission
Rebecca grew up in Pittsburgh as a member of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church where her faith was shaped at an early age. It was here, where her parents have been active members for over 40 years, Rebecca began to understand the connection between faith and mission and where she first sensed a call to ministry. As a church youth, she traveled to Malawi and learned to value international ministry, especially mission done in partnership.
After graduation from George Washington University, and McCormick Theological Seminary, she was called to Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana where she served as an associate pastor for ten years. In seminary, she met her husband, Joshua Yoder, also a theology student. Joshua holds a doctorate in New Testament studies from The University of Notre Dame.
Rebecca, Joshua and their son, Owen, served as mission co-workers with Presbyterian World Mission and The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt from 2013 - early 2015. While there, Rebecca instructed Masters of Divinity students in theological English, oversaw the development of online courses, offered resources for U.S. supporters and congregations, and hosted visiting groups engaging in mission partnerships.
Rebecca began her ministry with us in July 2015.


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"When I found out it was the Victoria Hall I was thrilled because I've seen a few decent concerts there myself – people like Eric Clapton and ELO back in the Sixties.
Tony moved his family to the Laurel Canyon neighbourhood of Lose Angeles which, during the 1960s, became famous as a home to many of the Big Apple's rock musicians, such as Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison of The Doors and The Byrds.
Ian said: "I think Tony just felt that he could offer his family a better life over in America.
The Britannia Stadium: Home of Stoke City FC.
Very shortly the Audit Commission will give its verdict on whether or not the deal which enabled Stoke City to acquire sole ownership of the Britannia Stadium was properly handled by the city council.
It follows claims that councillors were misled over the exact details of the £5 million sale.
The inference is, of course, that the sale of the city's 36 per cent stake in the stadium may not have gone through at all had elected members been made aware of the exact details.
At this point I should declare my interest in this matter. I'm a Port Vale fan, a season ticket holder, a (very minor) shareholder and a Vale columnist for this newspaper.
For years now I have observed as the city council has displayed what I believe has been an astonishing bias in favour of the club whose players wear red and white in comparison to Burslem's finest.
Now, as my club teeters on the brink of a financial and footballing abyss, I'd like to point out the obvious.
Yes… I can almost hear the jeers. I'm waiting for the emails and the letters from Outraged of Heron Cross, Sarky from Trentham and Smug of Blurton.
It's a good bet that the word 'jealous' appears in this correspondence. Fair enough – it's a free country.
Whatever people might think, I'm not anti-Stoke City. I'd like to see both clubs doing well. I appreciate full well the importance of the Potters being in the Premier League – for the club and its supporters, for the profile of the city and even for the company I work for.
However, that shouldn't mean the city's other professional football team is treated like a poor relation by the local authority.
We know Stoke City has more supporters than Port Vale. Thus, simple mathematics dictates that there are going to be more Potters fans among the powers-that-be at the Civic Centre (Town Hall as was) than there are Vale fans.
Could this, then, help to explain some of the following?
During the season 89/90 (Vale's first season back in the old Second Division – now the Championship) the Burslem club's relationship with the city council hit rock bottom.
The authority forced the closure of Vale market which had been generating around £120,000 a year for the club. Cheers.
In the early 90s the idea of building a 'community stadium' was first mooted. The concept was championed by the then city council leader Ted Smith, a no-nonsense politician and staunch Potters fan who brokered a deal between the authority, Stoke City and St. Modwen.
To be fair, Vale were approached about the possibility of ground-sharing with Stoke at the proposed venue in Sideway. Which was a bit like asking Stoke fans if they fancied leaving the Victoria Ground to share a new stadium with the Vale in Middleport.
Needless to say, Vale stayed put and Stoke City received millions of pounds worth of taxpayers' money (and, against the odds, European grant aid) to build a new ground which never realised its grand vision of becoming a community stadium. (Hosting a few pop concerts just doesn't cut it, I'm afraid).
In June 2007 Stoke City was able to purchase the city council's 36 per cent stake in the Britannia Stadium for £5 million.
Whether or not this represents value for money for the city's taxpayers is open to debate. (I suspect the pre-credit crunch valuation of the site would have meant the stake was worth more).
However, the phased payments which city councillor Mike Barnes and other colleagues have taken issue with equate to an interest-free loan to the Premier League club.
In stark contrast, League Two Port Vale has been paying up to six per cent interest on the £2.25 million loan it secured from the same authority.
At the same time Vale Park, at the council's behest, has become a genuine community venue in the way the Britannia Stadium never was.
But while the Vale has had to finance its own community programmes, £500,000 of the £5 million Stoke City is paying to become sole owner of the Britannia Stadium will actually be ploughed into community schemes… at the home of the Potters.
Does this all sound fair to you?
I could go on. There are many more examples. But, in summing up, I reckon that, irrespective of the result of the Audit Commission's investigation, it is a fact that the bias towards Stoke City within the city council is every bit as real today as it was when Ted Smith and his Labour cabal ruled the roost.
And, should the unthinkable happen to Port Vale, then I believe that through their actions elected members and officers, both past and present, will certainly have contributed to the club's demise.


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Up The Punks started in 1999 as a personal project to document the Wellington punk scene. I'd been to gigs at Thistle Hall (the unofficial home of Wellington punk) years before and returning to that scene to photograph in the late 90s brought into stark relief how little I or many others there knew about all the previous generations of Wellington teens who had climbed the narrow stairs to pogo, mosh and slam to bands from the suburban wastelands of Johnsonville, Stokes Valley and Lower Hutt.
What began as a series of gig photos soon morphed into an expanding archive of material charting the contemporary and historical presence of a punk scene within Wellington. In 2002 the first UP THE PUNKS exhibition was held at Thistle Hall gallery. Collaborating with visual artist and designer Kerry Ann Lee UP THE PUNKS 2002 sketched out a loose history of the Wellington scene over 25 years. With no authoritive texts to refer to local histories had to be uncovered from the photo albums, private collections and stories of those who had been there.
Since February 2011 much of the gathered archive material has been making its way on line through the launch of an Up The Punks wiki site. In 2012 UP THE PUNKS returned to Thistle Hall bigger and better with social media, the internet and a growing in interest in local histories making the task of digging up arcane facts about obscure bands a lot easier. Riffing off the two-way street of social media platforms UP THE PUNKS 2012 allowed the audience to write directly on to the walls setting up an active dialogue over the course of the show.
As well as the exhibition UP THE PUNKS 2012 also hosted two nights of music with GETTIN WORSE: PUNX STILL ANGRY featuring 4 bands heavily involved in the current Wellington scene, and NO WAVE SPACKTACKULAR held up stairs at Thistle Hall to close out the show.
Old school punk Skippy viewing videos from the Wellington punk scene over 35 years.
Exhibition as a collaborative story telling tool.
Poster for the original UP THE PUNKS exhibition in 2002.
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Bulk Amenities to Replace Bathroom Miniature Packages Across All Brands of Marriott International, Incorporated
As part of its overall efforts to reduce plastic waste, Marriott International, Incorporated has announced that the miniature bottles and tubes provided in the bathrooms across greater than 7,000 hotel and resort properties will be replaced with what it calls "larger, pump-topped bottles", with completion of this initiative expected by December of 2020.
Please click on the photograph for a review of the Holiday Inn Vilnius hotel property, which is where these bathroom amenities were found. Photograph ©2017 by Brian Cohen.
This announcement from Marriott International, Incorporated follows a similar announcement which was released by InterContinental Hotels Group last month.
"When fully implemented across the globe, Marriott International's expanded toiletry program is expected to prevent about 500 million tiny bottles annually from going to landfills; that's about 1.7 million pounds of plastic, a 30 percent annual reduction from current amenity plastic usage", according to this official press release from Marriott International, Incorporated. "A typical large, pump-topped bottle contains the same amount of product as about 10 to 12 tiny, single-use bottles. Because tiny bottles are not usually recycled, they end up in the hotels' trash bins – generating refuse that will never truly decompose in landfills. In addition to allowing guests to use as much of a product as they need, the larger bottles are also recyclable along with other basic containers, such as plastic soda bottles."
Arne Sorenson — who is the current president and chief executive officer of Marriott International, Incorporated — claims in the aforementioned press release that "Our guests are looking to us to make changes that will create a meaningful difference for the environment while not sacrificing the quality service and experience they expect from our hotels."
Really? Bulk containers of amenities in the bathrooms of the guest rooms in which I stay is not a change which I am looking for Marriott to do. I prefer the miniature individual containers for a variety of reasons — and I believe that is possible to do without harming the environment, as outlined later in this article.
Single Use Plastic Toiletry Bottles at Hotels to Become Illegal in California?
Please click on the photograph for a review of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Hinton hotel property, which is where these bathroom amenities were found. Photograph ©2017 by Brian Cohen.
Personal care products in the form of miniature plastic toiletry bottles — which contain fewer than 12 ounces of liquid product — became one step closer to be banned from lodging establishments in California effective as of Sunday, January 1, 2023, as members of the State Assembly of California voted 50-24 on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 to pass the bill into law, according to this article which I wrote here at The Gate back on Thursday, June 6, 2019.
The bill — which is an amendment to the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, as administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery — would require a state agency or "local agency with authority to inspect sleeping accommodations in a lodging establishment to notify lodging establishments of this requirement no less than one year before the requirement would become operative."
Lodging establishments which are found in violation of the law by an authorized state or local authority would be issued a citation:
Written warning upon a first violation
$500.00 for a second or subsequent violation — not to exceed $2,000.00 annually
Other Plastic Reduction Initiatives From Marriott International, Incorporated
A press release from Marriott International, Incorporated announced on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 the removal of single-use plastic straws from its hotel and resort properties globally by July of 2019. The new brand standard represents the elimination of the use of greater than one billion plastic straws per year and approximately one quarter billion stirrers from the hotel estate of Marriott International, Incorporated…
…but that press released never addressed what specifically will replace those single-use plastic straws — if they even will be replaced — other than hinting at "biodegradable alternatives" to be available.
Is Plastic Waste Really an Issue?
A recent study by the University of Newcastle, Australia suggests that an average person could be ingesting approximately five grams of plastic every week — which is the equivalent of a credit card's worth of micro plastics — according to this article which I wrote here at The Gate back on Tuesday, June 18, 2019…
…but in response to that article, WR2 — who is a reader of The Gate — posted this rebuttal:
Sorry, but there's so much misinformation in this post. First off, there are no "garbage patches" in the oceans. I assume you are referring to the "garbage island" meme, which is a complete lie. If you go there you will see nothing. There is an increase in the ppm in that area of the ocean, but most of the particles are tiny.
Second, relying on one "study" is dubious at best, so I would bet my life that the real number of amount of plastic ingested is much lower. However, it doesn't really matter, because it's pretty much harmless. It passes right through your system. It is a non-problem. That should be obvious given how much plastic we supposedly consume and yet we are doing just fine thank you.
Finally, the majority of plastic entering the oceans comes from Asia. Specifically, China, Thailand and Vietnam. If you go to Thailand you will see this firsthand. We are not the problem. We don't dump our garbage into the ocean. So what we do here makes zero difference.
Is WR2 correct about the infamous "great garbage patch" in the Pacific Ocean being merely a myth? Could a "little skepticism would go a long way towards wasting money, emotional energy and political capital towards fighting non problems, and instead addressing real world problems" as WR2 claims?
Recycling Should Be the Answer
Take a look underneath that miniature plastic toiletry bottles when you are in the bathroom of your room at a hotel or resort property…
…and you will likely see that familiar triangular arrows symbol of the Resin Identification Coding System, which is a standard as specified by the American Society for Testing and Materials pertaining to recycling. For both of the bottles shown in the above photograph, the resin code is for polyethylene terephthalate, which is nicknamed by the more familiar acronym known as PETE.
All miniature plastic toiletry bottles for personal care products — such as shampoo, conditioner, body lotion and mouthwash as four examples — should be required to be manufactured by one recyclable material which had already been recycled. Perhaps that material can be based from a plant to be even more friendly to the environment.
Please click on the photograph for a review of the Delta Hotels Banff Royal Canadian Lodge, which is where this blue recycling receptacle were found. Photograph ©2017 by Brian Cohen.
Lodging establishments should then be required to provide a receptacle in guest rooms especially for recyclable materials. Once the guest is finished using the product, he or she then properly disposes of that bottle into the appropriate receptacle.
Many hotel and resort properties around the world already have a similar system in place — such as the Delta Hotels Banff Royal Canadian Lodge, at which I stayed.
Some people who are concerned about the environment would suggest that most — if not all toiletries — should be in solid form instead of as liquids in order to eliminate the need for small plastic bottles. For example, soap is still supplied in the form of solid bars at many lodging establishments instead of body wash in miniature plastic bottles; and they usually are packaged in cardboard boxes, which are easy to recycle.
Please click on the photograph for a review of the Hyatt Place Richmond/Chester hotel property, which is where these bars of soap wrapped in plastic were found. Photographs ©2018 by Brian Cohen.
One problem is solid products which come wrapped in plastic, which usually cannot be recycled — but plastic wrap arguably better protects the product which is contained in it. If possible, a happy compromise would be to seal solid toiletries in a material that gives as much protection to the product as plastic, but can be easily recycled like cardboard.
Not everyone likes them, but certain shampoos and other products which are usually liquid in nature come in powdered form. Package them similarly in a recyclable material could also be another solution.
Are Bulk Dispensers The Answer?
You may check into your room and notice that the familiar miniature plastic toiletry bottles are missing. Rather, bulk dispensers are installed on the walls in the bathroom.
Because there is only so much room on the walls of the bathroom — as well as for aesthetic reasons — instead of separate products for the shampoo and conditioner or for shampoo, liquid soap and body wash, they are combined as one product in a single dispenser.
There was no more shampoo or soap in the dispenser in the shower — but I found out too late while I was already attempting to shower. Please click on the photograph for a review of the Park Inn by Radisson Budapest hotel property. Photograph ©2014 by Brian Cohen.
Another issue is that bulk dispensers are not always replenished — especially if the dispenser is manufactured out of a translucent or opaque material with no clear indicator. This has happened to me more than once over the years whenever I attempted to take a shower. For example, once was at the Park Inn by Radisson Budapest hotel property, at which the dispenser mounted on the wall was clearly empty — unlike the other time at a Holiday Inn hotel property in Munich, at which a dispenser mounted on the wall was empty; but one could not determine whether it was full or empty due to the fact that it was opaque with no indicator.
The last thing I want to do is call housekeeping and wait until a member of the staff is good and ready to provide the product which I need to clean myself. I do not want to have to check if a wall dispenser has enough product whenever I want or need to use it.
These dispensers were on the walls of the bathroom at the Tru by Hilton Oklahoma City Airport. Please click on the photograph for a review of this hotel property. Photographs ©2017 by Brian Cohen.
Some wall dispensers are not easy to use at all — such as those at the Tru by Hilton Oklahoma City Airport, at which I stayed. Among other issues, I did not like how the product came out of the containers, as you have to squeeze both sides of the container itself for it to come out. Squeeze gently as instructed, and nothing happens; but too much came out when squeezing slightly less gently. Despite multiple attempts, I could not find a happy medium. The container is poorly designed overall.
Other potential issues with bulk dispensers include — but are not limited to — the following, as bulk dispensers:
May be empty when you attempt to use them, as they may not be refilled properly and in a timely manner
Can eventually malfunction — such as product not dispensing when pushing a button as one of many examples
May be more difficult to use due to inefficient or dysfunctional design — such as having to squeeze them hard simply to release product
May be more likely to contain counterfeit products as a way for hotel and resort properties to save money
Could potentially be breeding grounds for germs if they are not cleaned properly, as multiple people must touch them to use or refill them
May be filled with undesirable foreign ingredients by other guests — even where locks are in place but the wall dispensers are left unlocked anyway
Advantage: Bulk Dispensers Versus Small Bottles and Tubes
The advantages of bulk dispensers versus small bottles and tubes of toiletries and amenities include:
Less liquid product is wasted — guests can use as much or as little as desired
Reduced amount of trash in terms of the number of used plastic bottles, tubes and boxes which are disposed
Significantly more economical for each hotel and resort property as a measure of saving money — including fewer purchases and recycling small bottles can potentially be costly
Less time for housekeeping to prepare the room
Small bottles and tubes already used by other people may not be replaced with fresh product; whereas the product inside of bulk dispensers can be considered untouched by other people
More counter and sink space for guests
Bulk dispensers contain more product for guests with long hair; while small bottles and tubes may not contain enough product
Advantage: Small Bottles and Tubes Versus Bulk Dispensers
The advantages of small bottles and tubes of toiletries and amenities versus bulk dispensers include:
Wall dispenser could be rendered useless if it falls off of the wall; is broken; or is simply not functional due to lack of proper maintenance
Dispensing product can be more difficult than necessary — such as pumping numerous times just to use enough product
Housekeeping staff must be called if bulk dispenser was never refilled
Guests can potentially tamper with wall dispensers, depending on their designs
Potential contamination of germs with the number of people who use wall dispensers if they are not cleaned or disinfected properly
Guests can take small bottles or tubes of unused products with them, as they are convenient for traveling
Greater than ten million people benefited from the Clean the World Foundation, which integrates used soap — which would otherwise be discarded — and integrates it with a comprehensive water, sanitation and hygiene program
As with other environmental measures, bulk dispensers are touted to guests as environmentally friendly when really the main focus may be to save the hotel or resort property money
Just Another Way to Reduce Costs For the Good of the Environment?
This bulk dispenser on the wall is at the Holiday Inn Lisbon – Continental hotel property. Please click on the photograph for a review of this hotel property. Photographs ©2018 by Brian Cohen.
Marriott International, Incorporated already started switching to larger bottles situated in racks mounted on the walls of rooms in 450 hotel and resort properties at five different brands; and intended to expand to 1,500 hotel and resort properties in North America by January of 2019 — while InterContinental Hotels Group introduced bulk dispensers mounted on walls in the rooms of hotel and resort properties at four different brands last year.
As I first noted in this article which I wrote on Sunday, May 6, 2018 with regard to the initiative to save plastic as part of the Serve 360: Doing Good in Every Direction of Marriott to refresh sustainability and social impact efforts by 2025, "Environmentally, the program is expected to save an average of 250 lbs. of plastic per year for a 140-room hotel — approximately 23,000 plastic bottles", according to this article written by Robin McLaughlin of Lodging Magazine. "Replacing small plastic bottles with the dispenser also positively impacts owners' bottom lines, saving between $1,000 to $2,000 per year."
Are these lodging companies truly concerned about the environment — or are they using these initiatives simply to improve their financial bottom line? Perhaps the answer is both are true — and if so, is that wrong?
Please click on the photograph for a review of the Protea Hotel Samrand hotel property, which is where these bathroom amenities were found. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
Although no definitive evidence is obvious, I keep thinking that this seemingly overzealous initiative by Marriott International, Incorporated is more about saving money than it is about being passionate pertaining to sustainability, as there are ways to continue to offer guests the miniature packages of amenities without impacting the environment in a negative way.
Most of the bulk dispensers I have found in the bathrooms at hotel properties are manufactured from a material known as — you guessed it — plastic. My personal experience with plastics suggests to me that although plastic may take many decades to break down biologically, its useful life is significantly shorter. What do you think management at a hotel or resort property will do once a bulk dispenser malfunctions and is no longer functional?
I am a believer in a number of issues: reducing the amount of intervention by governments whenever possible without reducing the efficacy of protecting consumers; ensuring that we conserve the consumption of products so that there is enough to go around for everyone; and protecting the environment as much as reasonably possible…
…but although bulk dispensers attached to walls in the bathrooms of lodging establishments could work in some cases, I am opposed to that being the norm for the aforementioned reasons described in this article.
Once implemented, some people will choose to ignore the recycling options which I have proposed in this article; and that is to be expected. All I know is that I recycle whenever possible; and if lodging establishments put forth an effort to help recycling be as easy as throwing something in a trash can, then the majority of guests should theoretically use them with no problem.
As for toiletries in solid form: if a guest uses the product and likes it enough to keep it, that person can easily transport it home aboard an airplane, as it would not be subject to the limitations of liquids imposed at airport security checkpoints. Protecting them in a recyclable product which is both sealed and resistant to water would be a winning solution.
As I reported in this article on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, 2018, thousands of bars of used soap — as well as small plastic bottles of toiletries such as shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, mouthwash and skin cream — can be discarded from one single hotel property daily; and wall dispensers could help to significantly reduce that waste. I also like the idea of helping people to whom cleanliness is considered a luxury, which is where the aforementioned Clean the World Foundation comes in.
Regardless of whether a hotel property uses bulk dispensers or small bottles and tubes of amenities is not going to significantly affect my trip either way. All I care about when I am a guest in a hotel room is that I am clean, comfortable, relaxed and refreshed while I am traveling.
My preference is to have the choice of whether or not I want the small containers of toiletries — as long as those containers are constructed of recyclable materials so that I may dispose of them properly when I am finished with them — but I am likely in the minority regarding that opinion.
Other articles pertaining to plastic waste and recycling include:
Bulk Amenities to Replace Bathroom Miniature Packages Across All Brands of InterContinental Hotels Group
Miniature Toiletry Bottles in Hotels: What Really Should Be Done
Wall Mounted Dispensers Versus Small Bottles of Amenities in Hotels
Sale of Single Use Disposable Plastic Water Bottles Banned by San Francisco International Airport
We Ingest Enough Plastic to Eat One Credit Card Per Week
Stupid Tip of the Day: Use Recycling Bins Whenever Possible
Earth Day 2019: Clean the World by Recycling Used Soap and Plastic Bottles
Earth Day 2017 — and What Hilton is Doing to Help Save the Environment
…and the Overpackaging of Hotel Amenities Award Goes To…
Please click here for a review of the Aloft Seoul Gangnam hotel property, which is where the wall dispensers in the photograph at the top of this article were found. All photographs ©2014, ©2015, ©2017, ©2018 and ©2019 by Brian Cohen.
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In a few words…..I HATE IT.
RIC Flyer says:
The change is terrible.
About time too. While I don't believe that global warming is man made, I do believe we have to take care of the resources that G-d has given us. Throwing away those bottles always made me sad. This is a great move.
lopere says:
I love how you put a copyright mark on every single one of your photos. A copyright on a picture of an empty soap dispenser or a bar of soap..hahaah
What about the expiration dates on those small bottles? Whether they come from the "Travel size" area in a store, or from the hotel chains, I have yet to find a site that can tell me what the codes mean! I am a little weary how old the little bottles are, especially those without an inside "seal", when I go to use them. I am all for less plastic and I think it is a good thing to use the large bottle dispensers! In my experience, I feel the hotel management should take responsibility for ensuring the large bottles are empty, as they should when the small bottles are not replaced! As for plastic vs. boxed facial/bath soap, all of it is waste! Liquid hand soap in a dispenser, routinely filled, should by by the sink as should the body wash, conditioner, and shampoo be in the shower. Where ever we can improve our footprint the better! We need to stop thinking about us and more about our effects on this world (our home and resource)! As far as aesthetics in a hotel, be real! What's more important???
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Up $15 billion.
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Andrew Newell Wyeth (/ˈwaɪ.ɛθ) WY-eth); (12 de juliol de 1917 – 16 de gener de 2009) fou un destacat pintor estatunidenc d'estil realista, la seva obra s'enquadra dins el regionalisme, però també dins l'anomenat realisme màgic. Es va dedicar preferentment als gèneres del paisatge i el retrat i, així, la seva obra és un reflex fidel dels entorns de Chadds Ford (Pennsilvània) i Cushing (Maine), on va residir, i aporta també imatges de familiars, amics i coneguts. És particularment famós pel seu quadre «El món de Cristina» (Christina's World), del 1948, que va ser adquirit pel Museu d'Art Modern de Nova York.

Biografia

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Andrew Wyeth era el més petit dels cinc fills de l'il·lustrador i artista N.C.(Newll Convers) Wyeth i de la seva dona, Carolyn Bockius Wyeth. Va néixer el 12 de juliol de 1917, el dia del centenari del naixement de Henry Thoreau. A causa de l'estima i l'admiració de N.C. per Henry Thoreau, va trobar emocionant aquesta doble coincidència. N.C. va ser un pare atent que fomentava els interessos i talents de cadascun dels seus fills. La família estava unida, passaven temps llegint tots junts, anaven a passeig, estimulant "una proximitat amb la natura" i desenvolupant un sentiment per la història de la família Wyeth.

Andrew va estudiar a casa seva a causa de la seva fràgil salut. Com el seu pare, el jove Wyeth llegia i apreciava l'obra poètica de Robert Frost i els escrits de Henry Thoreau i va estudiar la seva relació amb la natura. La música i les pel·lícules també van elevar la seva sensibilitat artística. Una influència important, discutida àmpliament pel mateix Wyeth, va ser La gran desfilada (The Big Parade), de King Vidor. Afirmava haver vist la pel·lícula, que descrivia una dinàmica familiar semblant a la seva, "cent vuitanta vegades" i creia que havia tingut la influència més granen el seu treball. El director de la pel·lícula, Vidor va fer més tard un documental, Metafor (Metaphor), on ell i Wyeth discutien la influència de la pel·lícula en la seva pintura, incloent-hi Hivern 1946 (Winter 1946), Flocs de neu (Snow Flurries), Retrat de Ralph Kline (Portrait of Ralph Kline), i Afternoon Flight of a Boy up a Tree.El pare de Wyeth va ser l'únic mestre que va tenir. A causa del fet de ser escolaritzat a casa, va portar una vida protegida i va estar "obsessivament observat". D'aquella època, Wyeth recordava: "El papà em va mantenir gairebé en una gàbia, em va mantenir en el meu propo món, i no pensava permetre que ningú hi entrés. Jo gairebé vaig estar fet per estar en el bosc de Sherwood de Robin Hood amb Maid Marion i els rebels."

Als anys 1920 el pare de Wyeth va esdevenir una celebritat i la família sovint tenia convidats famosos, com F. Scott Fitzgerald i Mary Pickford. La casa bullia d'activitat creativa i competició. Els cinc fills de N.C. i Carolyn tenien talent. Henriette Wyeth Hurd, la més gran, va esdevenir una pintora de retrats i de natures mortes molt coneguda, Carolyn, la segona filla, també va ser pintora. Nathaniel Wyeth, el tercer fill, va ser un reconegut inventor. Ann, de jove, va ser música i, d'adulta, compositora. Andrew era el fill més jove.

 Mestratge de N.C. Wyeth
Wyeth es va iniciar en el dibuix de molt jove. Era dibuixant abans de saber llegir. Quan era adolescent, el seu pare el va portar al seu estudi on va rebre les úniques lliçons d'art que va tenir. N.C. va inspirar l'amor del seu fill pels paisatges rurals, el sentit de l'aventura i les tradicions artístiques. Encara que la creació d'il·lustracions no era la passió que volia perseguir, Wyeth va fer-ne sota el nom del seu pare durant la seva adolescència.

Amb la guia del seu pare, va dominar l'estudi de la figura i l'aquarel·la, i més tard va aprendre el tremp a l'ou del seu cunyat Peter Hurd. Va estudiar història de l'art pel seu compte, i va admirar molt mestres del Renaixement i de la pintura americana, especialment, Winslow Homer.

N.C. també va fomentar la confiança interior en ell mateix per seguir els seus propis talents sense pensar com era rebut el seu treball. N.C. ho va escriure en una carta a Wyeth el 1944:

"Els grans homes (Thoreau, Goethe, Emerson, Tolstoi) sempre irradien el sentit agut de l'exigència d'un artista, per entendre completament que les conseqüències del que crea són importants. Deixa que el motiu de l'acció estigui en l'acció en si i no en l'esdeveniment. Sé per pròpia experiència que quan he creat amb algun grau de força i bellesa, no he pensat en les conseqüències. Qualsevol que crea per l'efecte —per aconseguir un èxit— no sap què s'està perdent!"

A la mateixa carta, N.C. relaciona ser un gran home amb el fet de ser un gran pintor: ser un gran artista, descriu, requereix profunditat emocional, una obertura, mirar més enllà d'un mateix com a subjecte, i passió. Una gran pintura, així, és aquella que enriqueix i amplia la pròpia perspectiva.

A l'octubre 1945, el seu pare i el seu renebot de tres anys, Newell Convers Wyeth II (n. 1941), van morir quan el seu cotxe estava parat a la via a prop de casa seva i va xocar amb un tren. Wyeth es va referir a la mort del seu pare com una experiència emocional formativa en la seva carrera artística, a més del fet de ser una tragèdia personal. Poc després, l'art de Wyeth es va consolidar dins la seva maduresa i va endurir el se estil.

 Casament i família
El 1940, Wyeth es va casar amb Betsy James a qui havia conegut el 1939 a Maine. Christina Olson, que seria la model de l'icònic El món de Christina (Christina's World), va conèixer Wyeth a través de la presentació de Betsy. La seva dona, Betsy, va tenir una influència tan forta en Andrew com la del seu pare. Va jugar un rol molt important dirigint la seva carrera. Una vegada que se li va preguntar, ella va dir "Sóc un director i tinc l'actor més gran del món."

El seu primer fill, Nicholas, va néixer el 1943, seguit de James ("Jamie") tres anys més tard. Wyeth va pintar retrats de tots dos nens. El seu fill, Jamie Wyeth, sguint els passos del seu pare i del seu avi va esdevenir la tercera generació d'artistes Wyeth.

"Tres generacions d'art dels Wyeth"
N.C. Wyeth era un il·lustrador famós pels seu treball aparegut en revistes, cartells i anuncis. També va crear il·lustracions per a llibres com L'illa del tresor i L'últim mohicà. Andrew seria el model i el mestre del seu fill Jamie que el seu pare N.C. havia estat per ell. La seva vida i la seva història artística està explicada en el llibre de James H. Duff's An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art.

 Mort
El 16 de gener del 2009, Andrew Wyeth va morir mentre dormia a Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, després d'una breu malaltia. Tenia 91 anys.

 Obra
El 1937, a l'edat de vint anys, Wyeth va tenir la primera exposició individual d'aquarel·les a la Macbeth Gallery, a Nova York. Tot l'inventari de pintures es va vendre, i el seu camí semblava segur. El seu estil era diferent del deu seu pare: més de sobri, "més sec", i més limitat en la paleta de colors. Va manifestar la seva convicció que "…el gran perill de l'escola de Pyle és la creació d'imatges." He did some book illustrations in his early career, but not to the extent that N.C. Wyeth did. Va fer les il·lustracions d'alguns llibres al principi de la seva carrera, però no en la mesura que ho va fer N.C. Wyeth.

Wyeth era un artista visual, al principi classificat com a pintor realista, com Winslow Homer o Eakins. En l'article de Life Magazine del 1965, Wyeth deia que encara que era considerat com a realista, ell mateix es considerava abstracte: "La meva gent, els meus objectes respiren de manera diferent: hi ha un altre nucli — una excitació que és definitivament abstracta. Déu meu, quan tu realment comences a mirar alguna cosa, un simple objecte, i t'adones del significat profund d'aquesta cosa—si sents una emoció per això, no hi ha final."

Va treballar sobretot dins l'estil regionalista. En el seu art, els temes preferits de Wyeth van ser el paisarge i la gent del seu voltant, ambdós a la seva ciuat de Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, i a la seva localitat de vacances a Cushing, Maine.

Dividint el seu temps entre Pennsilvània i Maine, Wyeth va mantenir un estil de pintura realista durant al voltant de cinquanta anys. Els seus temes va gravitar entre alguns paisatges i models identificables. Els seus passeigs solitaris van ser significar les primers inspiracions per als seus paisatges. Va desenvolupar una extraordinària intimitat amb la terra i el mar i es va esforçar per entendre'ls d'una manera espiritual basada en la història i en una emoció no verbalitzada. Normalment creava dotzenes d'estudis d'un tema en llapis o esbossos en aquarel·la d'executar una pintura acabada, ja fos en aquarel·la, "pinzell sec" (una mena d'aquarel·la en què l'aigua és espremuda del pinzell), o al tremp amb ou.

 Christina Olson
Va ser a la granja dels Olson, a Cushing, Maine on va pintar El món de Christina (Christina's World) (1948). Potser la seva imatge més famosa, representa la seva veïna, Christina Olson, tirada en un camp sec, davant d'una casa en la distància. Wyeth es va inspirar en Christina, que, paralitzada per la polio i incapaç de caminar, passava la maor part del temps a casa seva.A Century of Change, Little, Brown and Co., (2000) p. 373

La casa Olson ha eatat preservada, renovada segons l'aspecte d'''El món de Christina, i està oberta al públic com a part del Farnsworth Art Museum.

Wyeth va crear prop de 300 dibuixos, aquarel·les i pintures al tremp, la majoria en una paleta deurada, de tons carbó, marró i blau. A causa de la popularitat de Wyeth, la propietat va ser declarada National Historic Landmark al juny de 2011.

A una distància cuta des de la casa, prop de l'aigua, hi ha el cementiri familair de Hathorn, on hi ha enterrada Christina Olson, el seu germà Alvaro i Andrew Wyeth. A l'entrevista del 2007, la neta de Wyeth, Victoria, va revelar que ell volia ser enterrat prop de Christina i del lloc on va pintar Christina's World.

La granja dels Kuerner
També el 1948, va començar a pintar Anna i Karl Kuerner, els seus veïns a Chadds Ford. Com els Olson, els Kuerner i la seva granja va ser un dels temes més importqants de Wyeth durant gairebé 30 anys. Wyeth deia de la granja dels Kuerner: "No crec que sigui un lloc pintoresc. Senzillament m'estimula, de forma purament abstracta i purament emocional."

La granja dels Kuerner es pot visitar en un tour a través del Brandywine River Museum, a prop del la casa i l'estudi de N.C. Wyeth; el 2011, la granja va ser declarada National Historic Landmark, a causa de la seva associació amb Wyeth.

Pintures d'Helga
El 1986, va tenir una àmplia repercussió la revelació de la sèrie de 247 estudis d'Helga Terstof, nascuda a Alemanya, amb qui Wyeth es trobava mentre estava assistint Karl Kuerner a la seva granja. Wyeth la va pintar durant el període 1971-1985 sense el coneixement de la seva dona ni del marit d'Helga, John Testorf. Les pintures eren emmagatzemades a prop de la casa de Frolic Weymouth, estudiant i bon amic seu. Helga, una música, fornera, cuidadora i amiga dels Wyeth, no havia fet mai de model, però ben aviat es va sentir confortable amb els llargs períodes de posats, durant els quals ell va observar-la i pintar-la fins al detall més íntim. Els retrats d'Helga no són un estudi psicològic obvi del subjecte, sinó més aviat un extens estudi del seu paisatge físic, com els paisatges habituals de Wyeth. Ella gairebé sempre és retratada sense somriure i passiva; però dins d'aquestes limitacions deliberades, Wyeth aconsegueix transmetre qualitats subtils del caràcter i l'estat d'ànim, com ho fa en molts dels seus millors retrats. Aquest extens estudi d'un subjecte en contextos i estats d'ànim diferents és únic a l'art americà.

El 1986, el milionari Leonard E.B. Andrews (1925–2009) va comprar gairebé la col·lecció sencera, i s'ha preservat intacta. Wyeth ja havia donat algunes pintures d'Helga a amics, incloent-hi la famosa Amants (Lovers), que havia estat donadda com a regal a la dona de Wyeth.

Els treballs es van exposar a la National Gallery of Art el 1987 i en una exposició itinerant per tot el país.

En una entrevista el 2007, quan li van preguntar a Wyeth si Helga aniria a la festa del seu 90è aniversari, va dir "Sí, certament. I tant" i va continuar dient: "Ella, ara, és part de la família: Sé que això és xocant per a alguns. És el que m'agrada, d'això. Realment em sorprèn."

Altres treballs importants
 Inspirat per les aquarel·les de Winslow Homer, Wyeth va pintar una aquarel·la impressionista, Coot Hunter, entorn del 1933, on experimentava amb els "efectes efímers de la llum i el moviment".
 Venda pública (Public Sale), 1943 (Museu d'Art de Filadèlfia) és una de les seves primeres pintures al tremp.
 Després de la mort de N.C. Wyeth, la seva obra va començar a prendre un to melancòlic. Wyeth va pintar Hivern 1946 (Winter 1946), 1946 (Museu d'Art de Carolina del Nord, Raleigh, que representa un noi veí, Allan Lynch, corrent sense rumb per un turó desolat amb la mà estesa. La localització de l'obra era l'altre costat del turó on el seu pare havia mort i representa l'inquietant i incontrolable sentit de la pèrdua.
 Marró suís (Brown Swiss), 1957 (col·lecció privada) és una de les diverses pintures que va fer dels anys 1950 als anys 1970 de la granja de Karl i Anna Kuerner a Chadds Ford. El títol de la pintura ve de les vaques marrons suïsses del quadre.
 El 1958, Andrew i Betsy Wyeth van comprar i restaurar "The Mill" (El Molí), un grup d'edificis del  que apareix sovint a la seva obra, incloent-hi Dormint de nit (Night Sleeper),1979 (col·lecció privada). Brinton's Mill (el Molí de Brinton) va ser inclòs al Registre Nacional de Llocs Històrics el 1971.
 Garret Room, 1962 (col·lecció privada) va ser començada com a aquarel·la i acabada en la tècnica del "pinzell sec".
 Wyeth va començar a fer retrats als anys 1960, com Up in the Studio, 1965, un retrat al "pinzell sec" de la seva germana Carolyn.
 En obres com ara El Patriota (The Patriot), un retrat de Ralph Cline, Wyeth va mirar més enllà de la superfície per entendre qui estava pintant. Cline era un interessant gentleman de 71 anys, representant del patrimoni indígena americà i del caràcter de Maine. Portava un gran barret i un mico, i mastegava tabac. Va ser mentre el pintava, però, que Wyeth va entendre que, sota el seu caràcter i el seu posat dur, Cline era un veterà amb bon cor i amb una gran dignitat i intel·lecte.
 Quan Christina Olsen va morir a l'hivern del 1969, Wyeth va reorientar la seva atenció artística cap a Siri Erickson, de la qual va capturar la innocència nua a Estiu indi (Indian Summer) (1970). Era un preludi de les pintures d'Helga.
 Ring Road, feta el 1985, reflecteix els tons de la terra que Wyeth va utilitzar al llarg de la seva carrera.

Reacció de la crítica
L'art de Wyeth ha estat llargament controvertit. Tècnicament va desenvolupar obres boniques, va tenir un gran nombre de seguidors i, com a resultat, va fer una fortuna considerable. Tot i així, hi ha hagut punts de vista conflictius entre crítics, conservadors i historiadors, en relació a la importància de la seva obra. A l'historiador de l'art Robert Rosenblum se li va demanar, el 1977, que identifiqués l'artista "més sobrevalorat i subestimat" del . Va proporcionar un nom per a totes dues categories: Andrew Wyeth.

Els admiradors de l'art de Wyeth creuen que les seves pintures, a més de bellesa pictòrica i formal, contenen forts corrents emocionals, contingut simbòlic i una abstracció subjacent. Molts observadors del seu art estan d'acord que és expert en l'ús de les tècniques al tremp amb ou (que fa servir rovell d'ou en la tècnica) i de l'aquarel·la. Wyeth va evitar utilitzar pintures a l'oli tradicionals. El seu ús de la llum i l'ombra permet que els subjectes il·luminin la tela. Les seves pintures i títols suggerien so, com està implícit en moltes pintures, incloent-hi Tro distant (Distant Thunder) (1961) i Spring Fed (1967). Christina's World became an iconic image, a status unmet to even the best paintings, "that registers as an emotional and cultural reference point in the minds of millions."

El món de Christina (Christina's World) s'ha convertit en una imatge icònica, una condició no assolida ni per les millors pintures, "que es registra com un punt de referència emocional i cultural a les ments de milions de persones."

Wyeth va crear una obra en fort contrast amb l'art abstracte, que va guanyar popularitat i respecte en l'art americà i en el pensament crític a mitjan .

Les exposicions de les pintures de Wyeth als museus han tingut audiència i han batut rècord d'assistència, però molts crítics d'art han avaluat la seva obra menys favorablement. Peter Schjeldahl, crític d'art per a The Village Voice, va ridicultar les seves pintures com a "Productes de fórmula, no gaire efectius ni tan sols com a 'realisme il·lustracional'". Alguns van trobar l'art de temàtica rural de Wyeth, cansat i empalagós.

Bo Bartlett, un amic íntim i estudiant de Wyeth, comentava, en relació a la visió del seu mestre d'aquesta crítica, en una entrevista amb Brian Sherwin el 2008: "La gent només et fa canviar de direcció. No vull mostrar res a ningú del que estic treballant. Si ho odien, és dolent. I si els agrada, és dolent. Un artista ha de ser tancat per ser bo." N.C. va aconsellar a Wyeth que treballés des de la seva pròpia perspectiva i imaginació; treballar per causar "efecte" vol dir que l'artista no està explorant les seves habilitats artístiques i, com a resultat, l'artista no s'adonarà del seu potencial.

Obres a museus
Hi ha obres d'Andrew Wyeth a:

 Les col·leccions dels museus americans més importants, incloent-hi el Museu d'Art Modern de Nova York; la National Gallery of Art de Washington; el Metropolitan Museum of Art; el Whitney Museum of American Art; el Cincinnati Art Museum; el Smithsonian American Art Museum; el Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art a Kansas City; i l'Arkansas Art Center a Little Rock. El president George W. Bush i Laura Bush va decorar una sala de la Casa Blanca a Washington, DC amb pintures de la seva col·lecció.

 Col·leccions especialment grans al Brandywine River Museum, a Chadds Ford, Pennsilvània; al Farnsworth Art Museum, a Rockland, Maine; i al Greenville County Museum of Art, a Greenville, Carolina del Sud.

 Museus i col·leccions de tot el món, incloent-hi el Museu Nacional d'Art Modern a Tòquio; el Museu Ermitage, a Sant Petersburg; el Palazzo Reale, a Milà; i l'Acadéèmia de Belles Arts, a París, entre molts altres museus.

Honors i premis
Wyeth va rebre nombrosos reconeixements:
 2007, la Medalla Nacional de les Arts (National Medal of Arts).
 1988, la Medalla d'Or del Congrés (Congressional Gold Medal),[38] el més elevat honor civil atorgat per la legislatura dels Estats Units. the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States legislature.
 1987, el D.F.A. del Bates College.
 1980, el primer artista viu dels Estats Units a ser elegit per a la Reial Acadèmia Britànica.
 1977, el primer artista americà des de John Singer Sargent a ser elegit per a l'Acadèmia Francesa de les Belles Arts.
 1965, la medalla d'or de pintura de l'Institut Nacional d'Arts i Lletres (National Institute of Arts and Letters).
 1963, el primer pintor a rebre la Medlla Presidencial de la Llibertat (Presidential Medal of Freedom).

També va rebre nombrosos títols honoraris.

En la cultura popular
 El dibuixant Charles M. Schulz (un admirador de molt temps) es refereix sovint a Wyeth en el seu còmic, Peanuts.
 Fred Rogers, de la sèrie de televisió de la PBS, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, té una reproducció d'una pintura de Wyeth a l'entrada del seu estudi.
 Tom Duffield, el dissenyador de producció per al remake americà de The Ring (2002), es va inspirar en les pintures de Wyeth per a l'aspecte del film.
 M. Night Shyamalan es va basar en pintures d'Andrew Wyeth per a la seva pel·lícula The Village (2004).
 El director Philip Ridley va declarar que l'estil visual de la seva pel·lícula The Reflecting Skin (1990) està inspirada en les pintures de Wyeth.
 La sèrie de pintures d'Helga va ser la inspiració per a l'àlbum de 1987, Man of Colours, de la banda australiana Icehouse.
 A "Springfield Up" 2007 episodi de The Simpsons, Mr. Burns té una pintura del Món de Christina (Christina's World) al seu estudi, però ell està representat en lloc d'ella.
 A la seva autobiografia Man With A Camera, el director de fotografia Néstor Almendros cita Wyeth com una de les inspiracions per a l'aspecte de la seva pel·lícula Days of Heaven.
 En la sèrie de noves gràfiques Preacher (còmics), el tema 43 és anomenat a partir de la pintura El món de Christina (Christina's World). La pintura també és referenciada al llarg de la sèrie.
 Els noms dels carrers del veïnat de Thunder Hill, al poble d'Oakland Mills a la ciutat de Columbia, Maryland, deriven de les pintures de Wyeth.
 El 2013 la pel·lícula Oblivion, El món de Christina (Christina's World) s'ofereix com a fantasia de la imatge del món.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Andrew Wyeth's website
 Brandywine River Museum
 Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center
 Smithsonian Magazine Article on Andrew Wyeth
 AP Obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer
 Michael Kimmelman, Obituary, NY Times
 Genre Art Advocacy Center
 An account by Andrew Wyeth of his approach to painting in Life magazine, May 14, 1965
 Toward the end of his 7,500 mile horseback trek across America in 1977, William E. Marks had an interview with Andrew Wyeth that aired on MVTV exclusively and included photos of Wyeth painting en plein air.
 President Bush's Statement on Death of Andrew Wyeth, January 16, 2009
 Andrew Wyeth at MuseumSyndicate
 Artnet — Andrew Wyeth
 Christina's World in the MoMA Online Collection
 Faraway -- an art song inspired by Wyeth's painting Faraway

Escriptors de Pennsilvània
Receptors de la Medalla Presidencial de la Llibertat
Naixements del 1917
Morts a Pennsilvània
Pintors de Pennsilvània

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