05/31/2012
And todays lesson from art.com is...
Alasdair Lloyd-Jones has spent his life contributing artistic visions to the advertising and communications industries, and his artCircles™ for iPad collection is dubbed “Imagination’s Influencers.” Lloyd-Jones also notes that in each of these pieces he sees “a springboard to a story of a challenge to a mood,” and so it seems fitting that his collection includes this piece, “Christina’s World,” by realist painter Andrew Wyeth.
Wyeth (1917 – 2009) was a Pennsylvania native, and is one of the best known American artists in history. He was the youngest son of N.C. Wyeth, a well-regarded illustrator, who homeschooled his son for much of his youth (due to Andrew’s frail health as a child). The elder Wyeth cultivated his son’s artistic talents from an early age, and Andrew Wyeth held his first solo exhibition at age 20—he showed a collection of watercolor paintings, which promptly sold out.
Scenes of hardscrabble American life are what Wyeth did best, and this painting is no exception. Spare compositions and muted hues were Wyeth’s signature, and he drew the most inspiration from the land and people surrounding him. Christina Olson is the name of this painting’s muse, and she was one of Wyeth’s neighbors in Maine in the mid-20th century. She suffered from polio and was paralyzed from the waist down, and Wyeth spied her crawling across a field toward her home and was struck by her determination. The painting is an ode to her strong will, and is now one of the most well-known paintings in the world.
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Christina’s World, 1948
Art Print
By Andrew Wyeth
Iitem #: 10291753A
$19.99
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