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During a discussion of this work, one character asks how a piece of art can be sad if it does not feature someone looking sad. A character played by Toni Collette references this work after another character describes trying to imbue her own art with a sense of “interiority.” Robert Zemeckis references this work in a scene from Forrest Gump as Jenny throws several rocks at her childhood home. Though it does not appear in the film, this painting appears alongside Van Gogh’s Bridge at (-5[1])Arles in the (*) “hotel room” at the end of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. This painting is framed in-between two bookshelves in a destroyed library and admired by characters played by Olga Kurylenko and Tom Cruise in the 2013 sci-fi action film Oblivion. For 10 points, name this artwork, described in 2021’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things as “that painting of a girl, sitting in a (10[1])field, (10[1])looking at a (10[1])house,” by Andrew Wyeth. (10[1]) ■END■

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