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American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture. [1] [2]
American Gothic. 1930. Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942) In American Gothic, Grant Wood directly evoked images of an earlier generation by featuring a farmer and his daughter posed stiffly and dressed as if they were, as the artist put it, “tintypes from my old family album.”. They stand outside of their home, built in an 1880s style known ...
American Gothic, painting by Grant Wood completed in 1930. Grant Wood, an artist from Iowa, was a member of the Regionalist movement in American art, which championed the solid rural values of central America against the complexities of European-influenced East Coast Modernism. Yet Wood’s most famous painting is artificially staged, complex ...
Feb 8, 2017 · American Gothic has become an American icon, but Regionalism itself would never be thought of as a significant movement in the canon of US art history. Wood must have learnt all about plein-air ...
American Gothic, often understood as a satirical comment on the midwestern character, quickly became one of America’s most famous paintings and is now firmly entrenched in the nation’s popular culture. Yet Wood intended it to be a positive statement about rural American values, ...
Nov 7, 2019 · American Gothic has become so famous as an image that many people don’t realize that it actually was—and still is—a painting. In their minds, it is no longer an object. In some ways, the idea of an original has become degraded in our digital era. And so what I often try to re-instill in people’s minds is that this is an actual painting ...
Feb 16, 2017 · The reality behind American Gothic. By Sarah Churchwell. Published on 16 February 2017. As ‘America after the Fall’ brings some of the country’s most iconic works to Europe for the first time, Sarah Churchwell considers the cultural and political backdrop to Depression Era art.
Jul 12, 2005 · The Grant Wood painting American Gothic is a touchstone of American culture, depicting an upright Midwestern family on the farm. The story behind the painting is the subject of Thomas Hoving's ...
Dec 11, 2019 · 11 December 2019. Grant Wood (1891-1942), American Gothic, 1930 (detail). Oil on Beaver Board. The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA / Friends of American Art Collection / Bridgeman Images. Nan Wood Graham and Dr. Byron McKeeby, at the memorial exhibition, Gallery at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, September 1942. Gelatin silver print.
American Gothic is unquestionably Wood's masterpiece and ranks among the finest portrait paintings of its day. Like the Mona Lisa, it remains an enigmatic composition, but one which has become an icon of American art of the 20th century as well as one of the greatest paintings of Midwest Americana. The picture depicts a middle-aged couple ...
