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HUMN_303N_christinas_world In this forum, post your inspiration piece for the Art Production and Presentation assignment. Discuss why you chose this particular piece. How does it apply to your profession? Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth 1948 The Museum of Modern Art describes this piece as a woman “crawling through the tawny grass was the artist’s neighbor in Maine, who, crippled by polio, “was limited physically but by no means spiritually.” In which he expresses his challenges “to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.” (MoMA, 2007). The mode grass expresses the world and that she is external from it. It breaks barriers of the woman, showing that she is moving for the safety of her world. For the woman strives for a world as those not impeded by physical boundaries. It shows that she is experiencing a longing for what she knows though a struggle of the unknown she is putting herself into. In the New York Times Article The Pablo Picasso Alzheimer’s Therapy, they discuss Irene Brenton who had a form of Alzheimer’s that made it difficult for her to read and find the right words to say (expressive aphasia). That with visiting MoMA, her husband Myron stated that “while specific memories of the museum might evaporate, she seemed to retain a kind of emotional memory long after the visit ended” and that when engaged with her husband’s conversation, “it seemed the experience relived itself when I prompted her” (NYTimes, 2005). This piece, as well as this article intrigued my interest in the means of utilizing the arts, music and literature to provoke the minds though regularly lost to Alzheimer’s disease. The NY Times article said “…looking longingly at the figure lying in a field at the bottom of Wyeth’s painting, she seemed to identify deeply with the thin young woman in the dress, her left hand reaching toward the farmhouse” and it was Ms. Irene Brenton, who said that since you couldn’t see the woman’s face, you could still gather her happiness because “…you know she’s going to get to the house… I’d like to go into that house, too.” (NY Times, 2005). This woman, faced with the obstacle of not being able to comprise thought and express how she feels, felt the same struggle that she in turn doesn’t want to let her stop from getting to the house. This article as well as the interpretation of the piece from MoMA had struck many heart strings as I have lost family members to the incurable disease of Alzheimers. I have lost those close to me who have lost themselves years before, and with nursing, it is my goal to bring back those instances of joy and happiness, those emotions that are stored with visual and audial memories. The NY times states that This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :12:32 GMT -06:00 This study resource was shared via CourseH music and art “engages parts of the brain that remain intact long after the onset of dementia and that have to do with procedural memory – the kind that governs routine activities like walking, eating, shaving. One musician whom Dr. Sacks has observed almost entirely lost his memory, but his musical memory is intact. “Nietzsche used to say that we listened to music with our muscles,” (NY Times, 2005). If nursing was to incorporate simple stimulating ideas like music or art in the patient rooms, maybe we could retain some sort of mental stability for those who are brought to the hospital and put in an unrecognizable area. -Karina References New York Times. (2005). The Pablo Picasso Alzheimer’s Therapy. Retrieved from Museum of Modern Art. (2007). Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World. Retrieved from