
Death affects everyone differently, and that truism might be most pronounced when comparing the works of a handful of artists–or even within a single one. Painted three years after his father’s own death, artist Andrew Wyeth shared his new, harshly muted, and ominously desolate worldview to the masses with “Christina’s World”. The work represented a marked shift in style for the painter, as if to suggest that the stable foundations for which he and polio-stricken subject Anna Christina Olson so desire are in reality unattainable.