Andrew Wyeth (born 1917) is a staggeringly popular American realist artist. Still painting today, but his work's rural themes and abandoned farmhouses seem rooted in a pre-World War II America which has been left far behind. Critics attribute Wyeth's popularity to nostalgia, but the bleak and unsentimentalized atmosphere in his paintings suggests that the full explanation is much more complex.
The painting "Christina's World" was painted with his cousin Christina Olson as a subject, Christina had polio and was too weak to crawl beyond the boundary of the farmlands, her world extended as far as she could crawl.
His creations are observant, independent, quixotic, romantic and never "merely real." - Thomas Hoving
To view "Christina's World" and other Southern Gothic related material, please click on the "Back home to the Word" link below.
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