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.../miscellaneous - is a personal journal, self educational in nature, containing notes and images that inspire me, or that I wish to learn more about - as such, it includes works by other people as noted with full acknowledgment and credit to authors and sources where possible.
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American Gothic, 1930
Oil on Beaver Board, 78 x 65.3 cm (30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Grant Wood adopted the precise realism of 15th-century northern European artists, but his native Iowa provided the artist with his subject matter. American Gothic depicts a farmer and his spinster daughter posing before their house, whose gabled window and tracery, in the American gothic style, inspired the painting’s title. In fact, the models were the painter’s sister and their dentist. Wood was accused of creating in this work a satire on the intolerance and rigidity that the insular nature of rural life can produce; he denied the accusation. American Gothic is an image that epitomizes the Puritan ethic and virtues that he believed dignified the Midwestern character.
Can you believe?
Americana (Gothic style)
Eldora, Iowa 2005
Photograph: Matt Niebuhr
www.mattniebuhr.com
(via museumuesum)
Sleeping Pregnant Woman
Silbergelantineabzug
Signiert verso
this should / will - be drawn / painted.
Grandpa
December 1973
snapshot
what it is…
