“Christina’s World,” the magnum opus of the late Andrew Wyeth, has served as the inspiration for the protagonist of a new HBO series, writes Allie Gemmill for Bustle.com.

The 1948 painting by the renowned Chadds Ford artist has influenced the character of Dolores in Westworld, a science-fiction thriller that debuted this month and is receiving rave reviews for its visuals and thematic elements.

“Christina’s World” depicts a woman lying on the ground in a treeless field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon.

“It was a tilt of the head toward all the different stories that inspired us; a classic protagonist who’s on a hero’s journey with a darker twist to it,” Westworld’s co-creator Jonathan Nolan said of Dolores Abernathy, played by actress Evan Rachel Wood. “She starts in what should be the happy homestead, but it’s not, and she goes out looking ultimately for herself.”

“‘Christina’s World’ is a plain-spoken artwork that instills a level of comfort, and its clashing ideology: yearning,” writes Allie Gemmill. “In the portrait, Christina is a young woman who has ventured too far away from her country house, and appears to be crawling back, reaching toward it.

“The Westworld connection evolves thus: the painted woman is polio-stricken, struggling against physical odds to return to the place she knows and loves. Dolores’s own robotic pathology could help or hinder her own quest to grapple with her growing independent consciousness, and possibly prevent her from ever returning to the safe confines of her own ranch and the carefully constructed storyline that controls it.”

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