Artists recreate iconic painting with landscape ravaged by oil to protest arctic exploration

by VL Baker for Climate Change SOS

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Saturday, May. 30, 2015 Saturday, May. 30, 2015 at 6:34:07am PDT

The Guardian

British art collective Kennard Phillipps have reimagined the bucolic US artwork Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth to show how it would look after an oil spill, as part of a Greenpeace video campaign against Shell’s exploration of the Arctic

It breaks my heart to see this iconic Andrew Wyeth painting reflecting the damage that we have done to our world. I saw the original painting in the Wyeth Museum in Brandywine, PA and will never forget its power and beauty.

The original:

Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth