Christina’s World was created in 1948 by an artist Andrew Wyeth. He was a visual artist,
primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. Wyeth was one of the
best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century and lived from 1917-2009. This particular
painting is based off inspiration of a young girl named Anna Christina Olson crawling across a
field because she suffered from polyneuropathy. However, the woman in the actual painting is
his wife, Betsy, posing for it. Polyneuropathy is damage or a disease affecting peripheral nerves
in roughly the same areas on both sides of the body, featuring weakness, numbness, and burning
pain. It usually begins in the hands and feet and may progress to the arms and legs; and
sometimes
to other parts of the body where it may affect the autonomic nervous system. According to blogger Hannah Kim in an online article titled “A Closer Look At Christina’s World,” in 1949 The Museum of Modern Art acquired a modest-sized landscape painting from the Macbeth Gallery on 57th Street in New York City for $1,800. This is a large sum of money, especially for this time period, but was a worthy purchase for it went on to become one of the most recognized images in American art. People claim to feel many differing ways about this piece. Some focus on the landscape and the typical clothes of that time period, seeing the realism. Others know its background and describe longing and helplessness because of the distance and the problem with walking factoring in. A picture may say a thousand words but a painting can depict a thousand different emotions just by how it is approached and prior knowledge.
Vera Olivia Weatherbie was an accomplished painter in her own right, regarded more so now than during her lifetime. She was born in 1909 in Vancouver and attended Brittania Secondary School. She grew up in the Strathcona neighbourhood near Chinatown in Vancouver’s East end. Her parents were strict, conservative Presbyterians, yet somehow she was able to persuade them to let her attend the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (VSDAA) at the young age of 16.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, born the son of a London Barber and Wigmaker, is considered one of the greatest European artists of the 19th century. Turner, the English romantic landscape painter, watercolourists and printmaker, was regarded as a controversial and revolutionary figure by his contemporaries despite his training being similar to other artists of the time. His work ‘Walton Bridge’, Oil on Canvas 1806-10, reflects much of his training as a young artists as well as his well-known Romantic style. In this essay I will follow the beginnings of Turners artistic life, showing how his influences, training and opinions surrounding landscape painting have influenced his work ‘Walton Bridge.’ I will further explore how art critics, fellow artists and the wider public of the 19th Century received ‘Walton Bridge’ and his Landscape paintings in general.
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
Using the murder of Dee Ann’s mother as a means to intertwine the lives of the characters together, Steve Yarbrough examines the nature of relationships in “The Rest of Her Life.” The relationships in the story take a turn after Dee Ann’s mother is killed, with characters seeking to act more on their own, creating distance between many relationships throughout the story. Independent lifestyles prevent emotional bonds that hold relationships together from forming, thus preventing the characters from maintaining healthy relationships. The dysfunctional relationship present between Dee Ann and Chuckie in “The Rest of Her Life” is the result of the characters ' desire for self-gratification.
He used a luminist style of painting which means that he portrayed a landscape type of painting. He painted many sceneries that include houses, trees, grasslands, sunsets, ranches, and mountains. George Caleb Bingham is best known for his scenes that depict daily life out on the Western Frontier which means in Missouri.
Ms. Kilgallen was born in Washington, D.C. in 1967 and went to Colorado College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking in 1989. Her influences were from American and Indian folk art, hand painted signs, and typography from the 15th and 16th century (Kilgallen). Her color palette was influenced by early hand painted art from the southwestern area of United States; they were brown, a pale yellow, and black. She preferred to paint things that were happening around her, such as a woman sitting next to a man, or her husband painting graffiti on a wall.
In 1911, Rockwell illustrated his first book, “Tell Me Why Stories”. Two Years later he contributed to “Boys Life”, He soon became art director of the magazine. Commissions for other children’s magazines, among them “St. Nicholas”, “Youths Companion” and “American Boys”, soon followed. In 1915, Rockwell moved to New Rochelle, New York, home to many of America’s finest Illustrators. He studied the work of older illustrators while painting crisply, painted renditions of fresh-faced kids and dogs.
In January of 1826, Cole had become to be known for founding the National Academy of Design. During this time, many would comission him to paint pictures of American scenery, but his primary desire and goal, he says, was to create a “higher style of landscape that would express moral or religious tones.” In 1836, Cole married Maria Barstow and settled in Catskill, New York. Catskill would obviously become the inspiration for his piece, “Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River”. From these paintings he influenced many other artists. Among these artists were Frederick Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt.
Slatkin, Wendy. Women Artists in History From Antiquity to the Present. 4th edition. (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001)
The name of this artwork is Christina's World. This artwork was made in 1948. The name of the artist is Andrew Wyeth. It was done on a wood panel with paint! (Tempera paint to be exact). There is a girl in a pink dress, brown hair, and brown shoes (I think there boots but I'm not sure). She looks like she's on a farm of some sort. There is wheat she is sitting on. There is a brown house in the background. She's far from the house. I see dull colors in the painting. The shapes I see are squares. I believe the artist did attempt to make the painting 3-D. The lines that are used are vertical and horizontal. I can’t really tell what textures there is, but they I bet it feels like a painting. I believe what creates unity is that there is a color
Maria Full of Grace is a film that depicts the struggles the protagonist, seventeen year old Maria, goes through as she becomes part of the drug trade in order for a better lifestyle for herself, her family and her unborn baby. The film begins in urban Colombia where the audience is introduced to Maria’s hopeless lifestyle, as she is the only provider for a house full of women and in a relationship with an incompetent young boy. As the film takes plight to New York City, Maria becomes a mule for the drug cartel, while pregnant, Maria is faced with many circumstances that threaten her life. Although Maria Full of Grace depicts a male dominated culture, many events portray Maria’s willingness to stand up against culturally defined
Georges Seurat was a French born artist born on December 2nd 1859 in Paris, Frrance. He study at École des Beaux-Art, which was one of the most prestige art schools in the world, which is also known for training many of the renounced artist we know. George Seurat left the École des Beaux-Art and began to work on his own; he began to visit impressionist exhibitions, where he gained inspiration from the impressionist painters, such as Claude Monet. Seurat also was interested in the science of art; he explored perception, color theory and the psychological effect of line and form. Seurat experimented with all the ideas he had gained, he felt the need to go beyond the impressionist style, he started to focus on the permanence of paintin...
When a person begins to suffer from Guillain- Barre Syndrome their myelin sheath of their nervous system is being attacked and destroyed by the immune system (NINDS, 2011). The myelin sheath begins to lose its ability to transmit signals rapidly and affectively. Since signals are not getting transmitted to the brain fast enough, a person begins to notice fewer sensory responses from the rest of the body (NINDS, 2011). A person wouldn’t be able to tell right away or at all if an item they are touching is hot, cold, or causing pain. There also wouldn’t be good signal transmission from the brain to the rest of the body (NINDS, 2011). There would be signs of the muscles being unable to respond to the weakened or distraught signals they were receiving. Since the myelin sheath is responsible for transmitting the signals from a long distance, the upper and lower extremities would be the first to show signs of muscle dysfunction.
John Constable was an English painter who worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. While not highly regarded by his contemporaries, Constable is today regarded as one of the leading English painters of the era. He was a part of the Romanticism movement and is most remembered for his landscape paintings. His paintings were usually of his home and surroundings and did not dram
The most common type is Peripheral Neuropathy. It is also referred to as distal symmetric neuropathy or sensorimotor neuropathy. In this type, the legs, feet, toes, arms, and hands experience pain and loss of sensation. Typically, the lower extremities are involved before the upper extremities and a loss of reflexes is common. It is with this type of neuropathy that ulcers, wounds, infections, and in severe cases, amputations are most common (Dyck, Feldmen, & Vinick).