Write-up 1
	Description: What’s going on in this picture? (Please describe in details about themes of landscape or character, light, shape, color, brightness or texture.)，	Analysis: What do you see that makes you say that? (Is it size, shape, focus, texture, line, space, unity, balance, movement, contrast, pattern, color tone, proportion/size or the relationship among them?)	Interpretation: What message did the author would like to share through this painting? How did you feel after appreciating this painting?	Judgment: What is your opinion about this painting? Does it achieve in expressing its message?
畫作名稱 : Christina’ s World by Andrew Wyeth	On the meadow, there's a woman wearing a piece of pink dress lying on the ground, houses stand far away from her and the proportion of the sky looks so pushy. Though I couldn't see the face of the woman, she brings me a helpless feeling from her posture that let her can move on easily. The light in this picture seems to be bright, but the color doesn't. It shows a desolate situation.	First, the sense of space built from the sight from the back of the woman and it stretch upslope. The large proportion of the ground and the sky let the scene seems depress and nervous. Also, there's an area with no glass on it, means the activities of the human or animals, looks like it's extending to the woman, makes the paint more stressful. The woman's posture, lying with a hand straight forward, shows difficult and hopless feeling. The bright dress on the woman is in contrast to the bleak color of the grass, sky and the houses the woman looking at.	We could tell the girl is looking at the houses stand on the hill from her sight line, it may means that the girl has a desire to reach the place, which express a feeling of a kind of homesick that the girl want to get into the house, leave the ground. However, the girl's posture shows the difficulty of moving, which means the imposibility to go back to the house. The author might would like to say something about parent and child's alienation that let the child feel helpless. I feel upset that the girl has to be alone and panic, just like some children they are not being accompanied.	The name of the picture, Christina's World, exhibit a girl's world of he mind which is full of cheerless, helpless and depression. I can feel the feelings that the author want to convey through the paint, it did a succesful expression.

Introduction

Medium: Tempera on panel

Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 47 3/4" (81.9 x 121.3 cm)

Credit: Purchase

Christina's World

1948

“I worked and worked and worked on just a field, that swell, that curve to the field. It’s like building a house, and then living in it. I built the ground. Thinking of her… and when I put it, it was right.

I was there at the right moment. Imagine if I hadn’t been there. But you see how important it is to be in the surrounding and breathe it? And then it happens. If you’re lucky, and you’re perceptive enough to catch it.”

This lady in the painting was Anna Christina Olsen. She was a neighbor to American painter Andrew Wyeth. Because of a degenerative muscular disorder, Olsen was not able to walk like normal people. She refused to use a wheelchair, preferring to crawl, as depicted here, using her arms to drag her lower body along.

“The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. “

p.s. words marked in red are originally quoted from an interview with the painter Andrew Wyeth, talking about Christina’s World

Analysis

We see a woman as the focus of the whole image, lying in a field, and looking up towards a house and a barn in the distance upon a hill. Her gaze draws our sight to the upper right of the canvas. From there, as a whole route, our eyes move slightly towards the left, seeing another house. Then to the boundary where different grasses meet each other, our eyes follow the shape of the boundary, and our line of vision goes back down to the woman.

Let us look closer at the painting. We see the whole color tone elegantly designed to match each other, bringing a warm, soft story-telling tone. Even the pink dress on the lady, being the most focused color in the image, was a mild one; “like faded lobster shells,” the painter described.

Another part that draws our attention is the figure’s posture. Her irregularly thin and twisted arm seemed to support her body weight reluctantly, even looking as though it was trying to move.

Anna Christina Olsen inspired this composition - who being a real person, lived as a neighbor of Wyeth. Olsen suffered from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neuromuscular disorder that made her legs dysfunctional. She refused to use a wheel chair, however, preferring to drag her lower body along by using her arms.

“The challenge to me,” Wyeth explained, “was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.”

The title of the work “Christina’s World” shows the painter’s point of view - as a painter, a recorder and a friend who sees Christina’s daily life, Andrew Wyeth intended to bring encouragement to both his friend Christina who had lived bravely, and to all the viewers who need this courage as well.

Write-up 2
	Description: What’s going on in this picture? (Please describe in details about themes of landscape or character, light, shape, color, brightness or texture.)，	Analysis: What do you see that makes you say that? (Is it size, shape, focus, texture, line, space, unity, balance, movement, contrast, pattern, color tone, proportion/size or the relationship among them?)	Interpretation: What message did the author would like to share through this painting? How did you feel after appreciating this painting?	Judgment: What is your opinion about this painting? Does it achieve in expressing its message?
畫作名稱 : Christina’ s World by Andrew Wyeth	First, the sense of space built from the sight from the back of the woman and it stretch upslope. The large proportion of the ground and the sky let the scene seems depress and nervous. Also, there's an area with no glass on it, means the activities of the human or animals, looks like it's extending to the woman, makes the paint more stressful. The woman's posture, lying with a hand straight forward, shows difficult and hopless feeling. The bright dress on the woman is in contrast to the bleak color of the grass, sky and the houses the woman looking at.	On the meadow, there's a woman wearing a piece of pink dress lying on the ground, houses stand far away from her and the proportion of the sky looks so pushy. Though I couldn't see the face of the woman, she brings me a helpless feeling from her posture that let her can move on easily. The light in this picture seems to be bright, but the color doesn't. It shows a desolate situation.	We could tell the girl is looking at the houses stand on the hill from her sight line, it may means that the girl has a desire to reach the place, which is a kind of brave that the girl still want to move on without any help and concern. Though it might seems to be helpless from the people who isn't notice about her situation due to the disorder. The picture can be interpreted to a encouragement to the disability or people who has some disease that let them can't live easily, a reminder to people who always worry about the disability's function of living, they deserve what living mode they want to be.	The name of the picture, Christina's World, exhibit a girl's world of her mind. Though it seems to be full of cheerless, helpless and depression, the action and the firmness the girl shows to us are more important. I can feel the feelings that the author want to convey through the paint, it did a succesful expression.