Grant wood art

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Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the early years of 20th Century. Following a period of trips to Europe and an interest for impressionist and post-impressionist styles, he discovered the...

Self Portrait by Grant Wood............. He looks like Milton from Walking Dead....

The denim-clad artist who painted American Gothic wasn’t the hayseed he’d have you believe

Grant Wood My Teaching Philosophy I began my career as an art teacher over 20 years ago. Here are some things that I believe in. Everyone can create. Art is work, not magic. But it can be magical. Art is seeing, feeling, pondering, understanding the ideas of another. It's that thing that connects us to other people throughout time and across the globe, and also to the classmates you share a table with this afternoon. Don't feel bad when a piece of art doesn't mean something to you, but…

In this meticulously detailed painting, the artist's seventy-one-year-old mother, Hattie Weaver Wood, holds a sansevieria plant that symbolizes her hardy, upright character. This portrait relects Wood's admiration for early Flemish art and German New Realism, which he had studied during a trip to Munich the previous year. Back home in Iowa, he applied Old Master technique to local subject matter. Not all Wood's depictions of typical Iowans are as sympathetic. He could be critical of their…

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I’ve expressed my admiration here for the work of Grant Wood more than once. I find his imagery compelling, especially the way he creates mood and tension in what seem to be typical, mundane…