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    Grant Wood            I recently took a trip to the Jocelyn Art Museum. There they had many great painting in the permanent art collection. One that caught my eye, which I had seen many times before, but never knew any thing about, was a painting called Stone City, Iowa , which was created by Grant Wood in 1930. This painting is oil on wood panel and is 30 ¼ X 40 inches. Grant Wood is a famous philosopher who was born in February in the year 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. Wood was born to Quaker parents

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    While researching the American Gothic from internet, I found out that different from European Gothic, American Gothic was more likely related to countryside. Grant Wood is effectively one of America's most well-known specialists because of his notorious work American Gothic. Indeed, even today, while a few people may never forget Grant Wood's name or even the title of the picture, they unquestionably dependable perceive American Gothic when they see it. This one painting is referred

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    Grant Wood I recently took a trip to the Jocelyn Art Museum. There they had many great painting in the permanent art collection. One that caught my eye, which I had seen many times before, but never knew any thing about, was a painting called Stone City, Iowa , which was created by Grant Wood in 1930. This painting is oil on wood panel and is 30 ¼ X 40 inches. Grant Wood is a famous philosopher who was born in February in the year 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. Wood was born to Quaker parents

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    About the Artist Grant Wood was born February 13, 1891, near Anamosa, Iowa, and spent much of his lifetime working and teaching in his home state. During his years there, he taught in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, public schools and, later, was a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. He painted the familiar surroundings and everyday life of his nativestate and was one of the Regionalist group of painters of the American Scene. He once said that all the really good ideas he ever had came to

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    The painting American Gothic by Grant Wood is a painting with many meanings. Each artifact in the in the painting has a large meaning. Grant Wood artwork is a painting of his sister and his dentist Dr. B. H. Mckeeby. The house in the painting is the main influence of the painting. Wood had intended to do a portrait of the Midwestern “types but instead he saw the house which inspired the painting Wood called American Gothic. The next object in the poem is the window. The window has an important compositional

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    American Gothic – writing assignment I Description: In the painting we see two people. We see the farmer holding a hayfork and beside him is a woman. The woman is most likely his daughter. The couple stands in front of a house styled by the “Carpenter Gothic” era. The sun is shining but the couple don’t look like they appreciate the weather or “something else”. They both look very stretched in their faces. The man has a long head and his mouth is like a parenthesis on the wrong side. The woman

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    Grant Wood’s American Gothic is one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting brought Wood almost instant fame after being exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. It is probably the most reproduced and parodied works of art, and has become a staple within American pop-culture. The portrait of what appears to be a couple, standing solemnly in front of their mid-western home seems to be a simplistic representation of rural America. As simple

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    this essay I will explain my thoughts and feelings about a particular piece of artwork I find fascinating. For this essay I will be focusing on Grant Wood's portrait painting of the American Gothic. The American Gothic painting was created in the 1930s and has become an iconic piece of art as well as in my opinion his greatest work. When I first saw Grant Wood’s painting of the American Gothic, I was very young, somewhere in the age range of 9 years old. The elderly couple whom both had emotional

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    The young, soon to be famous painter, Grant Wood was born on the day of February 13, 1891 in the town of Anamosa, Iowa. In his young life he was in Iowa his father passed away in the year 1901. After the death of his Father when he was ten, His family moved to Cedar Rapids. After high school he studied in the United States and Europe and developed an interest in Impressionism. While he was in Germany while working on a commission, it gave him a chance to see early German artwork and giving him

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    Stone City by Grant Wood was created in 1930 by using oil on wood panel. This painting illustrates a lot of visual elements and principles of design which are important components of an artist’s work. Visual elements and principles of design help draw the viewer’s eyes to certain aspects of the painting and they tell the story of what the artist is trying to convey. This analysis will highlight the visual elements and principles of design that are present in Grant Wood’s Stone City. The use of

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