Focus on this artwork and discuss the Reception.
In 2011, Ken Johnson of The New York Times reviewed an exhibition where Winter Fields was included, and wrote about a recurring theme in 20th-century art of declining spirituality: "Winter Fields, a painting that Andrew Wyeth made in 1942 when he was leaning toward Magic Realism, puts it more succinctly. With the exacting touch and the pagan religiosity of a Pre-Raphaelite, he pictured a dead crow among dry, brown grasses, a baleful symbol for civilization at war with itself, a silent scream against the violent idiocy of man."
The New York Times Magic Realism New York Ken Johnson Andrew Wyeth Pre-Raphaelite