Write a response to the painting by answering the following questions. (length 100-150 words, deadline:16/02/2011)
a. What do you see when you look at the painting? Describe the woman and her surroundings. You may need to use your dictionary.b. What seems to be happening in the painting?
c. What story do you think the artist is trying to tell?
d. What adjectives would you use to describe the painting? (original activity from Ready to Write More)
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YanıtlaSilThis is a Andrew Wyeth’s classic painting,Christina’s World portray. I see that there is a woman sitting in a field and looking two buildings.I think the portray symbolises happiness and sadness. My personal view about the portray is the house on right is happiness and on the left is sadness. Also there is a vacillation about woman.She is making a decision about her choices.
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YanıtlaSilAn original reply. I see that you have found the name of the painting and the artist. Well done. If we focus on the person in the picture, what can you say about her? Is this a a woman or a girl , is there anything you notice in particular? Your interpretation does not reflect the real meaning of the painting but about art there can be multiple interpretations.
some notes about language: looking at ...
YanıtlaSilinstead of portray - portrait or painting would be better
my personal view is that...
Thank you Mr. Demirel.I think there is a woman sitting in the field. Also this area is unfertile and some part of it cultivated or like this. And a road going to on the right side house is remarkable. This is my first ideas about a portrait and my interpretation isn't enough to reflect the real meaning.I think I need more time to understand art. :) On the other hand I like this portrait and maybe I can find a copy of it for my room.
YanıtlaSilMy teacher, I see that 'portray' also can be used instead of 'portrait or painting'.But it is a real that I am still a student.I will pay attention for this words.
I think we can say a lot of things or opinions about this picture.But my first is opinion she feels tired to yourself and she upset.I see that She want to choose on the right house because she may be want to be happy or to be comfort.Or another idea the artist may be want to tell something about content oneself.It means that if she choose on the right house, she can be happy with little things. It shows this result to us.
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YanıtlaSilWhen I first looked at the painting, I saw a solitary and remediless woman who sitting on grassy field.She looking back at home longingly and she seems as if exhausted.My personal view is that painter had studied on a melancholic theme.Also there is a gloomy surrounding air.The grassy field in the painting is not green and the sky is ashen.It seems to me that she is facing back towards her home and she is looking at her home for the last time.In the meantime there is two buildings which are similarly each other.I don't understand what these buildings signify but these are an important detail.I think this painting is piece of inevitability...
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Now, I am looking at the painting and I see a woman, a sloping field, a house and a hut. Because of the fact that there are no animal in the painting, the hut may be a grain barn. The woman’s arms and legs are very thin. She may have a disease. She is sitting or crawling on the ground and I think she’s exhausted or disabled. In my opinion, she needs help and for this reason she’s looking at the home. I am aware of the colour differences between the ground of home and the ground of woman who is laying there, so she may be there for getting some flowers in the garden of home.
YanıtlaSilMy personal view is that the owner of the home is the writer. The writer realizes the woman’s bad condition while he or she is walking around the field who wants to immortalize this moment with a painting.
The best adjectives for the painting are impressive, tragic and dramatic.
I think that many people may comment this painting differently. I want to share my personal view with you. When I look at this painting, I think that this is a autumn painting ,also there are only a girl and two buildings on the vast land. This place puts in mind a village and these buildings look like country houses, also they seem very old. There are small buildings beside of house on the right. I think that these may be barn and loft. Also, there is a girl looking these houses and sitting on the land. Actually If I saw her face, I could easily comment this girl in the painting. Because I think that facial expressions represent many things , but I want to tell my thoughts about this girl with you. My personal view is that she is very tired, she gets thin, and her hair looks bad. I think that she had to live away from her home, maybe she was compelled, but now she comes back. Finally I think that artist wants to tell ‘’past ‘’ and ‘’now ‘’ in life of this girl. She had difficulty in past, but now a little time left to reach her happiness.
YanıtlaSilThe painting is different. When I looked at the it ,I felt the somberness, abit hope and need. I would use the describe the painting this adjective : somber,sorrowfull,pastel,longing,yearnly,scattered and eventually unpromising
YanıtlaSilIn the painting a girl is poor lonely and thin is lying on the faded grasses. there are two different houses that one of them nearly broken. Other is big. A bit beyond the girl grass is more faded and yellow.there are curling road toward the house.I can also see small hut in front of the big houseand there are one more hut near the house.
the lonely girl is poor and weakness. she wearing on faded pink dress. her hair is black and gathered as bun. It seems to be happening in the painting is the girl lying the faded grasses and her face averted toward the houses. I can see only her back.Mybe she has black or green penetrating gaze, but e only can guees them.She looks so weakness and desperate to my way of thinking, she looking at houses yearnly asif someone severed her forcibly and now she looking at missing, longing. Myhap she was living there before , mybe there are her own home thet she lived and grew, she is away from hard condition . she looks like single not married .ı think she is unhappy and she is yearn something belong to her past life that there was lived.
I think the artist is trying to tell us that the girl who longing for her family,hause. Hopes could emerge even at worse moment or after the negative lifes. this painting is bringing to my mind that I 'm reading Christine Fehaan's book called The Scarletti Curse. the girl in the book is same other girl in this painting.
Abdullah, you have realized that the woman has a disability and disease and the themes you put forward are tragiz and dramatic which are very close to the original interpretation. Good
YanıtlaSilAslıhan, You have also caught the main theme which is melancholy.
Feray, she is tired that is right but is she trying to choose the right house. I am not so dure about that.
Halime that the girl looks weak and there is a longing are correct interpretations.
All in all I am impressed about your ability to see the painter2S point of view in the picture. About my notes on language you should wait. Keep an eye on the blog.
When I look at the picture,I see the woman who struggled and succeeded.Her surrounding is quiet and without interruption.I see the two houses which are far from the woman.In my opinion,the houses are symbol of distance and victory.I believe that the woman is lonely person.I think the artist is trying to tell that the woman is trying to reach something.Maybe the houses are that woman's aim or dream.The woman thinks that she can succeed something,but she is afraid that no one is there.The picture says to us the victory is something that is not easy.
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YanıtlaSilI want to share my opinion with you. I think she is surprised and maybe a little bit terrified or in a hurry to get to someone or something in the house on the right. The house on the left surely giving her reasons to be away from it. Because the small house represents sadness that a girl is trying to escape from.As ı see, she seems very upset and tired too. She is desperate for sure from her body position. Maybe she wants to be renewed or she wants a second chance or a hope and seems to deserve it from the way the painter did the painting because of the
YanıtlaSilcolourful clothes she wear, like a good girl who is in trouble.
And finally, it is collapsing in away which would refer to damage in life or a relationship
while the other house still stand still, maybe she hopes for something like that.
When I saw this picture reminded me of a movie. I see that there is a girl sitting in a field and she looks like inevitable. There is a village over there. Anymore this girl looks like drive away from her house. My personal view is that in this area if they it crop plated. This painting, such as color section made a appearance old painting. I like this painting very nice.
YanıtlaSilFurthermore I remember seeing this girl Cinderella, perhaps similar to the life stories. At least I think so.
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In my opinion the village girl who looks like getting fired from the house,probably she hasn't place to go.she tries to arrrive the two houses to take shelter in and to find happiness there,hope she will find.
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If we generally look to picture,we basically see a woman who sitting in a place and there is a fantastic home and around of it is surrounded by grass.She looks to home far away and she seems like a exhauted or quilty woman,but probably the woman has commited an offence,because of her position.Due to this negativeness.she does not want go to home in which she can face some difficulties.
YanıtlaSilThe artist could think that you can have a lot of values and opportunities but don't forget your family and your home any time,because sooner or later you will come back your home.
However,the woman can be unhappy due to her crops,because the painting related with village. If ıt didn't be related with hervest,ıt would be probably in different area.However,the artist can think differently it's only my idea.
I can use some adjectives which describe the painting such as sorrowfull,regretfulincurability but on the other hand there is a hope....
First of all, when I look at the painting, firstly I looked the woman and two houses. According to me, there is a village and it is autumn seasons. A woman who seems to very exhausted. May be, she is very hungry and very thirsty and the houses which are away from the woman. The woman wants to going to house but she can't go because the houses are away from her so she is just looking at the houses. I think the artist is trying to tell the desperation to us. Finally in my opinion this painting is really meaningful.
YanıtlaSilWhen I looked at the painting,I saw the woman and only a few buildings.But...When I looked into the painting,I saw woman who come up against two options and her ideas, question marks on her head entangled like her hair.
YanıtlaSilStretching of her body bend by face of desperation and as if her hands replacement her eyes,her thin and tired legs are another expression of desperation.
My personal view is that buildings symbolises loneliness and the magic of the crowd.Rather than to be stand alone in the crowd, it is best to select only loneliness.
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The picture includes two houses, a girl and many feelings. When I looked at the picture, I firstly realized that the girl is thin and weak. So, I can say that the girl must be has serious illness or she must be disabled. She loves nature and she is over there, between the grasses and flowers. So she can be dragging around them.
YanıtlaSilIn my view, houses aren’t so important and they can be refering to the eye of the painter. In addition to this, it must be depends on a memory of the painter and the painter must be really affected because of that situation. In my opinion the painter tried his best by the way creating a wonderfull picture which has a deep meaning.
Finally, if I want to use adjectives for this picture, these can be followings;
-Doubtfull,
-Meaningfull,
-Emotional.
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YanıtlaSilFirtly I can say that the portrait is very different.There is a girl on the portrait and I think that she symbolize social isolation.She feels far away from society and the house symbolize society.Maybe we can say that she want to get footing in society but it can't be true.Maybe she want to shun society.she is alone,this may be her choice.Sometimes people want to be alone and they want to look at actions which is going on their around.On the other hand,I can talk about happiness or unhappiness.When I saw the portrait I think that she is unhappy because she seems like washed up.maybe she can be sidelined and she can be hopeless.I think that the artist is trying to tell hopeless and sidelined.I can say that this portrait is very histrionic.
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First,when I looked at the picture,I saw two houses and a woman.I thought two things;First,woman might be driven away from any house by her family or anyone.Second,this woman was maybe homeless,hungry etc.. and she wanted to enter any house.She thought that,in those houses there were families and maybe they accepted her.This woman might be got beating.Maybe,she was thinking of good or bad memories of her childhood.This picture has a lot of means and can be commented diffirently.
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YanıtlaSilWhen I loook at the painting, I see a woman who look at two building. I think woman sit on the yellow grass and there are two buildings away from woman. The woman is trying to arrive the buildings at the painting an she is sadness. Perhaps women once lived in that house and may want to go back. But she may not have courage for this. My personal view that the painter is trying to tell us about his or her sadness and anxiety. I think this painting is beatiful and engrossing.
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In my opınıon we can say that the gırl ıs ın a dıfferent stıatıon and had got two choıces but she dıdn t know whıch ıs true . the one ıs a lıttle wıder than the other one .
YanıtlaSilWhen I look at the painting, I see a girl who looks at a big house.It seems as though climate is autumn. Because the weather is foggy Field which is at surroundeding of houses has different colors of grass. As if there is a border to reach something. There are two houses and environs of a big house which was turned, a few huts next to the house, a road which goes the hous and a few birds which are flying faraway.
YanıtlaSilI think the girl trying to arrive house which she had a memory. But the girl is tired, exhausted and sad.
It’s my considered opinion that the artist is trying to tell us about we may have bad moment but we never lose our hope on the ground that one day everything may good! And in my opinion, he showed well us example of this.But art changes according to everybody.So, I don't know what artist' real message is.
Describing of the painting are interesting emotional and tragic.
looking at this picture, I see a woman seated in waste field,but in its background, there are houses and a shed and when I looked at her posture,I see that the woman were trying to arrive there. Then I understand she was crawling and according to the information in the book, this picture was painted by Andrew Wyeth, and searching it, I learned this woman was crippled because of polio when she was a child. and then I see she was tired and became more and more hopeless. Only her being painted make us consider "loneliness" and "helplessness". But if ı didn't know her illness, certainly I would think she came back to crawl because she didn't find whatever she had hoped. I mean "regret".. Coming back from being unknown which is so for her..
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She is a exhausted woman.She has gone to a lot of trouble. She escapes from anywhere.
YanıtlaSilShe is lost. She think these home is final solution. Who know? Maybe her home is one of them.
In my opinion, this painting is the picture of desparation, liberation, expextatioan.
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YanıtlaSilThe photo is very centered on the girl.She really stands out in the picture for me was the first thing my eye went to. Next my eyes went to the house in the distance.The rest of the scene is so barren that your eyes instantly go to the main objects in the photo which I think was the authors intent. This picture portrays a sense of being alone. The way the girls body is positioned it seems like she is staring off in the distance maybe mourning, wishing. The way her hands are positioned it looks like she is reaching for something that is just out of her reach. The colors are very subdued, it gives the whole picture a sense of loneliness for me. The artist uses different colors for the field where she is sitting compare to up where the house is, this helps shows the distance between the girl and the house. The whole picture to me has a strong sense of isolation.
YanıtlaSilWhen I look at the painting, ı see there is an empty field and ı see a woman laying on the floor.she is wearing a dress, she has black hair in mess and she is alone there. She is like incurable. She seems as if she wants help for herself. There are just a few houses there and place seems like desert.There is rueful entertainment. I think someone kick the woman out of the house because woman is laying like
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YanıtlaSilThe first thing that comes to my mind once I look at the picture is this woman's suffering. T think there is her good or bad memories in that house. In my opinion,she doesn't satisfied with her current place and after years,she comes a place where she missed and she is looking longingly at home.This woman is trying to reach there, but it seems impossible. I think here is some obstacles. It seems as if she will not be allowed to come in the doors as she goes to that home.
YanıtlaSilWhat the artist is trying to tell us can be this woman's helplessness.
An adjective which I will use to describe the painting can be helplessness.
looking at the picture, I see a woman who wants to arrive her home that is far away everything.As fallen into the desert she fells very tired and she does not have the power to act.Perhaps she lives the last moments.When she arrives her home,probably she will forgets all things her living and be happy,and despite she has a lot desperates, I see a woman that does not lose her hope in the picture.
YanıtlaSilMorever, according to me the artist is trying to figure woman's weakness ,he may also be trying to measure our instinct with a woman in need of assistance in a hay field and two old houses.
When i look at the picture i understand that woman is not happy at all and there is something wrong, maybe it can be a disease caused by drought or murdering, probably it may be drought, because there is no trees, flowers or any plants.
YanıtlaSilPicture portrays just sense of being lonely.
I would use the describe the painting this adjectives; anxious,unhappiness, loneliness.