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Artists recreate iconic painting with landscape ravaged by oil to protest Arctic exploration – big picture

British art collective Kennardphillipps 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

Watch the film A Song of Oil, Ice and Fire


British montage artists Kennardphillipps, to create its next video targeting oil giant Shell and its plans to drill in the icy waters of the US Alaskan Arctic this summer.
KennardPhillipps’ new version of ‘Christina’s World’ by Andrew Wyeth shows a girl in an oil covered landscape. The original shows the girl in an idyllic field that is now a National Historic Landmark in Maine. Greenpeace’s new film ‘A Song of Oil, Ice and Fire’ features classic American landscapes and shows how they would look if destroyed by Shell and the oil industry. Greenpeace supporters around the world are calling on Shell to stop drilling for oil in the Arctic. Photograph: Kennardphillipps/Greenpeace
KennardPhillipps’ new version of ‘Christina’s World’ by Andrew Wyeth shows a girl in an oil covered landscape. The original shows the girl in an idyllic field that is now a National Historic Landmark in Maine. Greenpeace’s new film ‘A Song of Oil, Ice and Fire’ features classic American landscapes and shows how they would look if destroyed by Shell and the oil industry. Greenpeace supporters around the world are calling on Shell to stop drilling for oil in the Arctic. Photograph: Kennardphillipps/Greenpeace
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