What do you notice?. Grant Wood: American Gothic What might the pitchfork represent? The flowers over the daughter’s shoulder? Countenance?

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What do you notice?

Grant Wood: American Gothic What might the pitchfork represent? The flowers over the daughter’s shoulder? Countenance?

Facts 1930 oil ~ Farmer and daughter Wood’s dentist and daughter posed for the portrait! Won instant fame for the artist Excellent example of Regionalism (movement that aggressively opposed European abstract art) Some believe that Wood used this painting to satirize the narrow-mindedness and repression that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture, an accusation he denied.

A popular piece to parody

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