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Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. [1]
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Canadian novelist W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. The film stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson ( Ray ...
The painting shows a young woman who is sitting in a nature scene, surrounded with flowers and butterflies. She has two flower bouquets in her hands: one laid down on her knees, composed of buttercups , daisies and cornflowers , the other one held vertically is composed of poppies .
Millet's The Gleaners was preceded by a vertical painting of the image in 1854 and an etching in 1855. Millet unveiled The Gleaners at the Salon in 1857. It immediately drew negative criticism from the middle and upper classes, who viewed the topic with suspicion: one art critic, speaking for other Parisians, perceived in it an alarming intimation of "the scaffolds of 1793."
Hope Second version of Hope, 1886 Artist George Frederic Watts Year 1886 (1886), further versions 1886–1895 Type Oil Dimensions 142.2 cm × 111.8 cm (56.0 in × 44.0 in) Location Tate Britain Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts, who completed the first two versions in 1886. Radically different from previous treatments of the subject, it shows a lone ...
Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was targeted by climate activists in October 2022. - Lex Van Lieshout/ANP/AFP/Getty Images
The award is given to one boy and one girl, $500 to each. A biography of Graham, Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams' Doc Graham, was written by sportswriter Brett Friedlander and college professor Robert W. Reising in April 2009. [9]
An auctioneer found the painting stored in an attic during a visit to a private estate in Camden, Maine. ... Labeled as Portrait of a Girl, the piece sold for $1.4 million in an auction.