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Spring in Town, 1941. Grant Wood. Oil on wood.
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The Spotted Man (1924), Grant Wood
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Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) - Sunlit Studio
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Grant Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942), Young Corn, 1931.
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Sunlit Studio - Grant Wood , 1926.
American , 1891 - 1942
Oil on board, 38.42 x 50.17 cm
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Death on the Ridge Road
Grant Wood
1935
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Grant Wood
Death on the Ridge Road
1935
#grant wood#regionalist#regionalist painting#regionalism#american regionalism#american art#american artist#american painting#american painter#landscape#landscape art#landscape painting#automobile#car art#car painting#modern art#art history#aesthetictumblr#tumblraesthetic#tumblrpic#tumblrpictures#tumblr art#aesthetic#beauty
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American Gothic (1930) painted by Grant Wood. American Gothic is considered to be one of the most famous paintings in American Art, and one of the few images to reach the status of widely recognized cultural icon, comparable to Edvard Munch's The Scream or Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. While the title American Gothic refers to the architecture of the house, which is a cottage located in Eldon, Iowa, the models are actually Grant Woods sister Nan and his dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. While many would think it represents a farmer and his wife, it's actually a farmer and his spinster daughter. This detail was insisted on by his sister since if she was the "wife" it would mean she looked older than she thought she did. While Wood was married for a short time, it was considered to be a mistake by many who knew him. While he was deeply closeted, many of his friends knew him to be homosexual and a bit facetious in his masquerade as an overall-clad farm boy.
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“𝐶𝐿𝐴𝑅𝑂𝑆𝐶𝑈𝑅𝑂” 𝑏𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑖 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘 (𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟢).
#dark aesthetic#aesthetic#dark#dark academia#american gothic#Grant Wood#goth aesthetic#photography#shini park#claroscuro#chiaroscuro#beauty
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''The Monster Times'', #4, 1972 Source
#the monster times#frankenstein#the bride of frankenstein#boris karloff#elsa lanchester#american gothic#grant wood
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🐼 Un panda au musée .... 🖼
Gif along72: American Gothic/ Grant Wood
#gif animé#along72#musée#panda#american gothic#grant wood#humour#parodie#funny pic#cute animals#funny#fidjie fidjie
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American Gothic (1930) 🎨 Grant Wood 🏛️ The Art Institute of Chicago 📍 Chicago, United States
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 came while Wood was visiting the small town of Eldon in his native Iowa. There he spotted a little wood farmhouse, with a single oversized window, made in a style called Carpenter Gothic. “I imagined American Gothic people with their faces stretched out long to go with this American Gothic house,” he said. He used his sister and his dentist as models for a farmer and his daughter, dressing them as if they were “tintypes from my old family album.”
The highly detailed, polished style and the rigid frontality of the two figures were inspired by Flemish Renaissance art, which Wood studied during his travels to Europe between 1920 and 1926. After returning to settle in Iowa, he became increasingly appreciative of midwestern traditions and culture, which he celebrated in works such as this. 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, an image of reassurance at a time of great dislocation and disillusionment. The man and woman, in their solid and well-crafted world, with all their strengths and weaknesses, represent survivors.
#American Gothic#Grant Wood#1930#The Art Institute of Chicago#Chicago#United States#painting#oil painting#oil on beaver board#american#Modern art#Regionalism#art#artwork#art history
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Spring in Town, 1941. Grant Wood, 1891–1942. Oil on wood
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Grant Wood - Paris street (1920)
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