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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.
American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood completed in 1930. The hard, cold realism of this painting and the honest, direct, earthy quality of its subject were unusual in the American art of its time.
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.”
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.
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...
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.
Grant Wood’s painting ‘American Gothic’ is a fairly small painting measuring 78 x 65.3 cm. Completed in 1930 it was inspired by a visit to Eldon in Iowa, USA. The painting was heavily influenced by Flemish Renaissance painters such as Albrecht Durer and Jan Van Eyck.
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.
Grant Wood is known for his stylized and subtly humorous scenes of rural people, Iowa cornfields, and mythic subjects from American history—such as the Art Institute’s iconic painting American Gothic (1930).
Grant Wood’s American Gothic has puzzled museumgoers, art lovers, and the average citizen since its completion in 1930. At the time of its creation, Wood was one of many artists who embraced an art style known as Regionalism—an art form that rejected European Modernist influences in favor of a more realistic and folksy approach in depicting ...
