Christina Major Abstract Paintings
American, b. 1982
The work of American painter Christina Major sees a convergence of styles that she has made uniquely her own. Collectors will find traces of Pop art, Photorealism and Expressionism in the wide range of distinctive portraits she has created over the years.
A closer inspection of each large-scale canvas, which is prepared with gesso and stretched, will also reveal the integration of text — Major layers hand-painted words and phrases in cursive over each of her painted subjects’ faces, which draws on her background in graphic design and affords the artist the chance to share her own memories and opinions or general thoughts on the subject of a given work.
Major, a native of Concord, New Hampshire, centers her paintings on cultural icons. She has painted the visages of American musician Prince, actresses Lauren Bacall and Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, as well as Pop art staples such as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
After living in several places around the world, Major is now based in Florida and earned her MFA at Florida Atlantic University, and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work is held in private collections in the United States and elsewhere.
On 1stDibs find authentic Christina Major portraits, abstract paintings and figurative paintings.
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Artist: Christina Major
Betty Davis Eyes Oil on Panel by Christina Major Diptych
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major ...
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2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Brigitte Bardot 57.5 x 82.5
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
I leave before being left. I decide.
I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life
I never do anything by chance.
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Success is unpredictable and fragile."
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with.
Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...
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2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled “Meaning of Life”
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
George Bernard Shaw (?)26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
“This is the true joy in life, being
used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one.
Being ...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Brigitte Bardot 57.5 x 82.5
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
I leave before being left. I decide.
I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life
I never do anything by chance.
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Success is unpredictable and fragile."
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with.
Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Raquel Welch Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood
dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is
that m...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled “Meaning of Life”
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
George Bernard Shaw (?)26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
“This is the true joy in life, being
used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one.
Being ...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Betty Davis Eyes Oil on Panel by Christina Major Diptych
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major ...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Sophia Loren’s Eye
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dolly Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood
dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is
that m...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloudscape Series 1 & 2
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting are in images handwritten by artist
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold Leaf
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Words:
Now I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together so now he is a legend when he would have preffered to be a man.
the Children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen out world through their eyes they restore my faith in the familys future
One must not let oneself b overwhelmed by sadness
can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly to be living alone as the presidents widow?
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved her MFA at Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work has been collected both nationally and internationally.
Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's graduate thesis exhibition, Components of self, evolved from her desire to combine large scale portrait painting with writing. She developed methods of using paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Oil on Canvas of Billie Holiday
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Sophia Loren’s Eye II
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloudscape Series 2
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
See images for Quotes within painting handwritten by artist
This painting is also sold in a diptych combo with a second piece but in this listing sold individually
As an undergrad...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloud Series 1
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
See images for Quotes within painting handwritten by artist
This painting is also sold in a diptych combo with a second piece but in this listing sold individually
As an undergra...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold Leaf
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Words:
Now I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together so now he is a legend when he would have preffered to be a man.
the Children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen out world through their eyes they restore my faith in the familys future
One must not let oneself b overwhelmed by sadness
can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly to be living alone as the presidents widow?
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved her MFA at Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work has been collected both nationally and internationally.
Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's graduate thesis exhibition, Components of self, evolved from her desire to combine large scale portrait painting with writing. She developed methods of using paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloudscape Series 2
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
See images for Quotes within painting handwritten by artist
This painting is also sold in a diptych combo with a second piece but in this listing sold individually
As an undergrad...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Raquel Welch Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood
dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is
that m...
Category
2010s Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Frank Sinatra
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"If you don't know a guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he is just like you. He has the same dreams the same hopes and fears. It's one world pal, we are all neighbors. A big lesson in life baby, it's never be scared of anyone or anything. I'm gonna live till I die. The best revenge is massive success. Don't hide your scars they make you who you are. Fear the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing , self-defeating, sickening thing in this world to an individual or to a nation. It's Billie Holiday who was and still remains the greatest single musical influence on me. You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, one is enough. Fairytales can come true, it can happen to you if you're young at heart. I'm for anything and for everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow."
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with.
Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Billie Holiday II
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Christina Major Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Christina Major abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Christina Major in oil paint, paint, gold leaf and more. Not every interior allows for large Christina Major abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 16 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Anthony Mastromatteo, Thelma Appel, and Anthony Adcock. Christina Major abstract paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,500 and tops out at $24,500, while the average work can sell for $15,700.