*Character
- A woman who is wandering around a farm-land searching for her belongings.
- A homeless woman who just got kicked out of the house (on the left-hand side), she is trying to come up with a solution rather she should walk towards the house (on the right of the image) or not.
- A young teenage girl who was disowned by both of her parents She has no place to stay and the sun is just about to comes down. She is struggling with finding a place to stay before the sky gets dark.
- A pretty young woman who recently got divorced from her ex-husband. She is deciding rather she wants to find a wealthy man and live an easier life or be an ordinary woman married to an ordinary guy.
* Central conflict
- Reality vs imagination
- Woman vs society/institution
- Woman vs her mind
- Nature vs supernatural
- Desire vs her own world
* Genre/emotions
- Drama
- Fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Personal Documentary
*Setting/background
- Farmland
- In the middle of nowhere
Preliminary Research
10 Facts about the artist: Andrew Wyeth
– Born on July 12, 1917, in Pennsylvania
– He is a realist painter working predominantly in a regionalist style
– Land and people around him are his favorite subjects through his art
– “Christina’s World” is one of his best-known images in the 20th-century American Art
– Andrew was the youngest of the five children of well-known illustrator and artist
– His wife is Carolyn Bockius
– Wyeth died on January 16, 2009 (at the age of 91 years old)
– In 1937, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in NYC
– Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania is his hometown
– Wyeth won the National Medal of Arts in 2007
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth)
10 Facts about the artwork and/or the technique/style of the artwork:
– Medium: Tempera on panel
– Wyeth actually used his young wife Betsy as the actual model for the painting.
– Christina had a degenerative muscular disorder that took away her ability to walk
– Christina’s World is a characteristic of Wyeth’s verson of realism which is not fantastical or surrealistic.
– The painting contains a sense of vulnerability, contributing to a certain foreboding feeling
– The painting is perfectly asymmetrically balanced
-Wyeth was inspired by Anna Christina Olson to create the painting when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window in the house.
– Style: Magic realism, everyday scenes
-“Christina World” is not Wyeth’s personal favorite work.
– He felt that the painting would have been more successful without the figure in the field.
10 Facts about the time period when the artist created the work:
-According to Wyeth, he remarked to an interviewer, “When I was painting Christina’s World I would sit there by the hours working on the grass, and I began to feel I was really out in the field
-During that time, Wyeth saw Christina was suffering from her muscular disease, he said: “the challenge was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.”
– Andrew Wyeth painted “Christina World” at the railway crossing just three years earlier when his father had been killed
-Wyeth actually got his inspiration from Olson’s farmhouse. The building is still standing and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
-Wyeth did the portrait of Christina Olson back in 1948
-Anna Christine Olson was a lifelong resident of the Cushing Maine and the farm where she lived is pictured in “Christina’s World.”
-During the time when Wyeth was working on the painting “Christina’s World,” Wyeth came up with this idea of making the figure seem vulnerable and isolated in the expansive field
– For decades after Christina’s death, the house changed hands several times
– The Olson house was associated with the events and people who have contributed to the cultural history back when Wyeth was working on “Christina’s World.”
-over 300 works by Wyeth are attributed to being associated with he Olson house.
(https://www.theartstory.org/artist-Wyeth-andrew.htm)
