Christina’s World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an inclined position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings adjacent to the house. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina's_World

  • Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    This painting always gives me an eerie feeling. Maybe it’s the uneven horizon? Or the distance between the woman and the house? The woman seems very isolated.

    • perishthethought@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yes, same - and it’s meant to. Did you read about the model?

      The woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 – January 27, 1968). Anna had a degenerative muscular disorder, possibly polio or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, which left her unable to walk. She was firmly against using a wheelchair, so she would crawl everywhere. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window in the house.