ART CRITICISM: Christina's World
The artwork I am going to analyse in this second art review is Christina’s World, by the American artist Andrew Wyeth, who was primarily a realist painter. It is a tempera on panel which measures 81,9 cm by 121,3 cm. It was painted in 1948 and hangs currently in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), in New York. This is the most famous painting created by Wyeth, and one of the most important and known artistic icons of XXth century (along with American Gothic, by Grant Wood). Wyeth’s favourite subjects were the lands where he lived and their people, especially his hometown, Chadds Ford (Pennsylvania), and his summer home in the Mid Coast of Maine. This painting, set in this second geographic location, depicts an ageless girl, Christina, lying on a bare field. A vast area of the grass, surrounding the house is cut. The girl, leant back among the grown grass, is looking at an old house and other adjacent buildings, such as a barn, in the distance. In his works, Wyeth sought to d