Christina's World Analysis

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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

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