Instead she would use her upper torso to pull herself along. Although at first glance Christina might appear to be casually lying down in the grass, she was inflicted with a degenerative muscle condition (possibly polio) that made it impossible to walk. In the foreground of the painting is the young woman Anna Christina Olsen, Wyeth’s neighbor. The artist set this painting in the grassy farmlands of Cushing, Maine, where he was living at the time. Wyeth’s most celebrated painting is undoubtedly the iconic Christina’s World, 1946. Christina’s World, 1948 Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948, via the Museum of Modern Art, New York Although Wyeth never explained the exact meaning of this painting, critics have suggested the man in the painting is Wyeth himself, as he struggles to come to terms with the trauma of losing his father.Ģ. It is this same hill that features in the background of this painting. Wyeth made this painting not long after his father was tragically hit by a train on Kuerner’s Hill in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. We see a young man bundled in dark winter clothing as he runs down a grassy hill, with a bewildered expression on his face. The melancholic, atmospheric painting Winter, 1946, is one of Wyeth’s best-known works of art.
Winter, 1946 Andrew Wyeth, Winter, 1946, via North Carolina Museum of Art
0 kommentar(er)
