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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 as Carpenter Gothic.
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2 dni temu · You can view the painting in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Arts of the Americas wing, Gallery 263. In that room, you will also find Diego Rivera’s Weaving (1936) and Jacob Lawrence’s The ...
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 .
This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood. The impetus for the painting...
