This is the painting I had in mind for a while for this particular post. I first saw this painting, Christina's World, by Andrew Wyeth in a Smithsonian magazine issue about two years ago. I forget many paintings, but this one has stuck in my mind. I think the reason might be in Wyeth's placement of form. The basic forms in the painting are rather simple; a tangled-up woman, a house, and a line that represents the horizon diving them up. What makes these forms have such a big impact, though, is that there are spaces in between them. A vast space of the canvas is waves of colors--the sky and the field. Wyeth, by placing these forms in such manner (which seems quite unique and complex to me), creates a sense of loneliness, forlornness, and estrangement.
(Whew!I apologize for the late posting-it's been an internetless weekend and week)
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