Art Dunce Has Question

[Orville Wrong]

Who painted that famous American image of a girl reclining in a meadow staring at a house in the distance?

I always thought it was Edward Hopper, but apparently not.

Help, please! :o

[jneale]

http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/museumcollection11lg.jpg

Christina's World - Wyeth

& I think the story is she is handicapped & for some reason stuck out in a field struggling to get home???

[Orville Wrong]

Thanks, jneale. :)

[redmeg8]

Wyeth is my favourite artist. Period.

Christina and her brother were friends of Andrew Wyeth and she had a "mysterious muscle wasting disease". He painted the them a lot and this happened to become his most famous work.

To my knowledge, Wyeth vary rarely told deliberate stories with his work that would be as straight-forward as "a disabled girl struggling home". He was surely making some sort of commentary on her and her life, but it's rare that he's so literal. A lot of the time, his primary goal is to give you a curiosity of who these people were in their lives and why are in they in these scenes, but not in any particular context of a "story".

[akip]

I always thought it was Edward Hopper, but apparently not.



man, you were way off. back to american art history 101 for you. :p

[redmeg8]

I was just reading ARTNews this weekend and they were arguing Wyeth's worth and drew parallels between him and Hopper in terms of their depictions of desolation.

It was mildly interesting. Little too whiny for me on the part of the Wyeth decenters. But, I guess that would make sense since I love him so.

Oh, he's having a big retrospective in Atlanta and Philly this year, btw.
I need to make a roadtrip, methinks. ;)

[akip]

I was just reading ARTNews this weekend and they were arguing Wyeth's worth and drew parallels between him and Hopper in terms of their depictions of desolation.

It was mildly interesting. Little too whiny for me on the part of the Wyeth decenters. But, I guess that would make sense since I love him so.

Oh, he's having a big retrospective in Atlanta and Philly this year, btw.
I need to make a roadtrip, methinks. ;)

wyeth is too illustrative for me:

http://virtualart.admin.tomsk.ru/w/wyeth1.jpg



i'll take hopper anyday; much more painterly:

http://www.johnfarnsworth.com/hopper.ny-movie.400%20256%20.jpg

[Orville Wrong]

man, you were way off. back to american art history 101 for you. :p
Way off would be a non-contemporary sculptor of the wrong nationality, would it not?

Confusing two American painters who were near exact contemporaries seems to me to be relatively close -- especially for an admitted art dunce. :p

[akip]

Way off would be a non-contemporary sculptor of the wrong nationality, would it not?

Confusing two American painters who were near exact contemporaries seems to me to be relatively close -- especially for an admitted art dunce. :p

okay---you got the right nationality and the right century.

but tell a hopper fan you like wyeth and they'll club you one. :p

[redmeg8]

I'd say I'm a Wyeth fan, but I also enjoy Hopper.
Never knew that was a no-no.

Even though I'm an illustrator by trade, I stil love painterly too.
And, I personally think Wyeth is his own brand of OCD painterly.
And, some of his quick watercolors are quite expressionistic.

Just my two cents, of course.

[Sushi]

but tell a hopper fan you like wyeth and they'll club you one. :p
I won't club you (been tempted to for other of your posts, but not that one :p). However, Hopper rules. Agreed--much more painterly, also he just captures a vision of how a certain portion of America looked at a certain moment in time. I find his work incredibly intriguing--whenever I see one of his paintings, it's as though I just can't stop staring. They are deceptively complex.