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art / cultural essay

christina's world.

2020

Andrew Wyeth, american painter, drew Christina crawling.

Christina had a disease that enabled her to walk. And Wyeth draw Christina in her state of mind: indomitable. Unconquerable.

His hopes for her was so brutally genuine. Andrew brought her mental resilience and painted Christina as a warrior of her world, ready to conquer anything. And he drew her as she wanted to be seen and you can almost sense the quiet and the domestic realism that radiates off the canvas.

Wyeth draw Christina's looking at her lost dream. A dream that should be hopeless because her world, in the end, was only physically limitated. She dragged herself on her utopia. But never in her mind.