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Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930), Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's best known work is his 1930 painting American Gothic, [14] which is also one of the most famous paintings in American art, [13] and one of the few images to reach the status of widely recognized cultural icon, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The ...
Della Francesca also painted The Baptism of Christ, and Cheles argues that the nude bathers in Wood's painting are similar to that work. [9] These bathers may symbolize baptism, and consequently, one coming of age. [9] Ulysses Grant Dietz, a former curator of The Newark Museum of Art, said that the painting indicates an "obvious love" for ...
While her paintings are not overtly Christian—she was an avowed communist—they certainly contain elements of the macabre Mexican Christian style of religious paintings. Grant Wood, 1930, Social Realism. American Gothic portrays a pitchfork-holding farmer and a younger woman in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style.
Stone City, Iowa is a 1930 painting by the American artist Grant Wood.It depicts the former boomtown of Stone City, Iowa.It was Wood's first major landscape painting. It is a study of a real place with which Wood was thoroughly familiar, but the landscape has been given fantastical curvy shapes, the trees are ornamental, and the bright surfaces are artificially patterned.
Pages in category "Paintings by Grant Wood" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. American Gothic;
The Stone City Art Colony was an art colony founded by Edward Rowan, Adrian Dornbush, and Grant Wood. The colony gathered on the John A. Green Estate in Stone City, Iowa during the summers of 1932 and 1933.
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John Wonnacott (born 1940), English painter; Toss Woollaston (1910–1998), New Zealand painter; Christopher Wood (1901–1930), English painter; Grant Wood (1891–1942), American painter; Leona Wood (1921–2008), American painter, dancer and writer; Ursula Wood (1868–1925), English artist and illustrator; Charles H. Woodbury (1864–1940 ...