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Grant Wood è stato un pittore statunitense. Tra i più acclamati pittori nella storia statunitense, Wood è noto per le sue rappresentazioni della vita quotidiana americana raffigurate adoperando tecniche impressionistiche e di realismo. La sua opera più nota, datata 1930, è il Gotico Americano.
- American Gothic (Grant Wood)
American Gothic è un dipinto a olio del 1930, eseguito...
- American Gothic (Grant Wood)
Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.
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 .
- 1930
It was the backdrop of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood, generally considered Wood's most famous work and among the most recognized paintings in twentieth century American art. Wood, who observed the house only twice in his lifetime, made only an initial sketch of the house—he completed American Gothic at his studio ...
- Bussy and Herald (local carpenters)
- 1881–1882
- 504 sq ft (46.8 m²) (house), .92 acres (0.37 ha) (lot)
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).
Hailed as one of America's foremost Regionalist painters in the 1930s, Grant Wood strove to depict archetypal rural subjects that embodied the values of hard work, community, and austerity.
