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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 semi-reclining 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 are adjacent to the house.[1] It is held by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.[1]

Christina's World
Artist	Andrew Wyeth
Year	1948[1]
Medium	Egg tempera on gessoed panel[1]
Dimensions	81.9 cm × 121.3 cm (32+1⁄4 in × 47+3⁄4 in)[1]
Location	Museum of Modern Art, New York

Background

The woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 – January 27, 1968). Anna had a degenerative muscular disorder which meant that she had not been able to walk since she was about 30 years old.[2] 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. He had a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her and her younger brother as the subjects of paintings from 1940 to 1968. Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting, but she was not the primary model; Wyeth's wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting. Olson was 55 at the time that Wyeth created the work.[3]

The house depicted in the painting is known as the Olson House in Cushing, Maine, and is open to the public, operated by the Farnsworth Art Museum.[4] It is a National Historic Landmark and has been restored to match its appearance in the painting,[5][6][7] although Wyeth separated the house from its barn and changed the lay of the land for the painting.

Reception and history

Christina's World was first exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan in 1948.[8] It received little attention from critics at the time, but Alfred Barr, the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), bought the painting for $1,800 (equivalent to $15,800 in 2020 dollars). He promoted it at MoMA and it gradually grew in popularity over the years. Today, it is considered an icon of American art and is rarely loaned out by the museum.[9][10]

In popular culture

In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Christina's World is one of the two paintings (the other one being Vincent van Gogh's Bridge at Arles) hanging on the living room wall of "an elegant, anonymous hotel suite" to which the astronaut David Bowman is transported after passing through the Star Gate.[11][12] It does not appear in the film adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick. The painting is also part of the sci-fi film Oblivion (2013), paying homage to the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The life of Olson and her encounter with Wyeth is portrayed in the novel A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline.[13]

A scene in the 1994 film Forrest Gump was inspired by the painting. When Jenny returns home, she throws herself on the ground and mirrors Olson's pose in reverse.[14]

The painting was used as inspiration for the "Farmhouse" chapter in the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II.[15]

The painting is referenced in the 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things.[16][17]

The painting is referenced in the season 4 episode of Atlanta "Andrew Wyeth. Alfred's World".

References

External links

• Turnbull, Richard. "Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Popular Favorites and Critical Disdain: From Pavel Tchelitchew's Hide-and-Seek to Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World". Museum of Modern Art.
• Meryman, Richard (May 14, 1965). "Andrew Wyeth: An Interview". Life. p. 92 - 120 – via Google Books.

На других языках

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[de] Christina’s World

Christina’s World ist ein 1948 entstandenes Gemälde von Andrew Wyeth und heute eines der bekanntesten Werke der US-amerikanischen Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es zeigt eine Frau, die auf einem Feld liegt und auf ein graues Haus am Horizont schaut.

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- [en] Christina's World

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[es] Christina's World

Christina's World es uno de los cuadros más populares de Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), y según Ian Chilvers, uno de los más conocidos de la pintura americana del siglo veinte. Pintado al aguada en 1948, se muestra en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York (que adquirió esta pintura en 1949).[1][2] Su título está dedicado a Christina Olson, una mujer paralítica de la parte inferior de su cuerpo (enfermedad de Charcot-Marie-Tooth o poliomielitis).[3]) Aunque Christina fue modelo ocasional del pintor, varias fuentes anónimas especulan con la posibilidad de que la modelo en este cuadro fuera la esposa de Wyeth, Betsy.[4]

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[fr] Christina's World

Christina's World est une peinture du peintre américain Andrew Wyeth réalisée en 1948. Réalisée à la détrempe à l'œuf sur panneau préparé[1], l'œuvre représente une femme rampant dans un champ, en direction d'une maison grise au sommet d'une colline.

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[it] Christina's World

Christina's World è un dipinto del 1948 del pittore americano Andrew Wyeth ed è uno dei dipinti americani più noti della metà del XX secolo.

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[ru] Мир Кристины

«Мир Кристины» (англ. Christina's World) — картина американского художника Эндрю Уайета. Работа находится в коллекции Музея современного искусства в Нью-Йорке, США.

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