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29 lip 2014 · Thrilled by the great collections of art they saw, moved by patriotic zeal, and craving both beautiful objects and promises of eternity, they took it upon themselves to acquire European culture for America. But what precisely did they encounter in Europe? How were their European contemporaries already appropriating and interpreting their own past?
8 lut 2017 · Grant Wood’s American Gothic is a painting that’s puzzled generations who’ve stopped to wonder at the real meaning behind it.
16 lut 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.
3 dni temu · The painting depicts a real house and real people . Wood’s inspiration for American Gothic was sparked by a leisurely drive around Eldon, Iowa, one spring afternoon in the company of a young art ...
Abstract. This essay surveys the gothic in American art from its earliest influence by 18 th - and 19 th -century British culture to gothic boom in late 20th- and early 21st-century culture. The gothic links not only to goth subculture of the 1980s but also to multiple expressions in film, music, fashion, design and architecture.
Gothic art, the painting, sculpture, and architecture characteristic of the second of two great international eras that flourished in western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the end of the 16th.
28 lis 2022 · Gothic Architecture is a European architectural style that evolved from Romanesque Architecture. It is a very common style utilized by churches. From around 1100-1500, these churches loomed over their respective towns with towering spires and pointed arches. These were the tallest towers yet.
