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...said. “The team has been playing really hard all season, and the luck hasn’t really been on our side. Maybe [this is] a turning point.”Not to be overlooked in the offensive onslaught was the solid performance of junior goalie Christina Kessler and her defense. Kessler made 17 saves and recorded her second clean sheet of the season.“We’ve had a history this season of letting teams get back in,” Brine said. “So it was nice that we really...
...Wyeth’s paintings. I happened to be in New York the day he died, and was able to spend a good, long time in front of “Christina’s World,” which the Museum of Modern Art has held since 1949. Christina was a real acquaintance of Wyeth’s, and following a childhood illness was paralyzed from the waist down. She refused to use a wheelchair, and instead grabbed and crawled her way through the physical and metaphoric world. In the painting we can see only her back, laid...
...more astringent and cooler. His portraits too. The people in those portraits are known to him. Most of them are family, like his son Jamie, who also became an artist, or neighbors like Karl and Anna Kuerner, a German-American couple he painted many times in Chadds Ford, and Christina Olson, the crippled woman in Christina's World whom he knew from around his summer home in Cushing, Maine. But though these people are his familiars, they look to us enclosed, subdued, even solemn, always keeping something of themselves to themselves...
...something to do with a mood of almost palpable quiet - the quiet you find so often in Hopper, but without Hopper's way of making sunlight unnerving or that little thrill of voyeurism that Hopper liked to provide. Wyeth's people may not be looking back at you, but, Christina's World aside, you rarely get the feeling they're being watched unawares...
...Helga. It's all those other quiet, elusive canvases that will stay with us. The canons of art history have loosened quite a bit in recent decades, enough so that no full picture of the modern world can exclude what he did. Who knows? Someday MoMA may even bring Christina all the way in from the cold...