{"product_id":"oil-on-canvas-marilyn-strong-women-by-christina-major-64-x-78-copy-1","title":"Oil on Canvas Dolly by Christina Major 47 x  81","description":"\u003cp\u003eWords within painting:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"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 marriage requires a lot of compromise. You know what’s the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery. Interesting is better than beautiful. You can't fake listening. It shows. I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong. It’s necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty. Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do. There aren’t any hard women, only soft men.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristina 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristina 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JF GALLERY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67755205853414,"sku":null,"price":24000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/7840\/1510\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-14at2.59.01PM.png?v=1792004608","url":"https:\/\/jfgallery.com\/products\/oil-on-canvas-marilyn-strong-women-by-christina-major-64-x-78-copy-1","provider":"JF GALLERY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}