Oil on Canvas Marilyn "Strong Women” by Christina Major 64 x 78 (Copy)

Words within painting:

Marilyn Monroe -Strong women

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Strong women don’t have attitudes, we have standards.

I believe things happen for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually start to trust no one but yourself.

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 to express a merging of herself with the individual painted in the portrait, resulting in a hybrid of herself and the person depicted.