American_Gothic美国哥特式解析

INTRODUCTION
It is one of the most famous paintings in American art, and one of the few images to reach the status of universally recognized cultural icon （象征）, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Edward Munch’s The Scream.
他们探索的精神 The spirit of courage they had to explore.
BACK
EVALUATION（评价） With the onset of the
Great Depression, it came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast American pioneer spirit.随着大萧条 的来临，它来作为美国的坚 定的拓荒者精神的写照。
H
Y
The reason why it becomes a symbol of American
This painting reflects the solemn pride 此画体现了美国农民庄严的自豪
Like the gothic style of naturalism(自然主义)， it 像哥特式的自然主义，它代表了美国 stands for American people’s spirit of seeking for freedom
INTRODUCTION
•An old conservative man is standing on the right of the picture. On his emotionless face are glasses, through which his dull eyes are observing the modern world. 一个老保守的人是站在图片的右边。 在他感情的脸的眼镜，他目光呆滞， 通过它观察现代世界。
人民追求自由的精神 农业在美国的重要性
It它描述了早期美国农民的形象和 describes the image of early development of ordinary farmers , and the importance of agriculture in America Not only on behalf of farmers in agriculture-dominated area, It 不仅代表了早期美国是以农业占主导的国家，而且还表现 farmers cultivate the spirit of hard work, but also a symbol of 出了农民的勤奋，和毋庸置疑的男性权利。 the unquestionable authority and power of men.
格兰特· 伍德（Grant Wood，1892-1942年）美 国画家。伍德出生于爱荷华州的安纳摩萨。他在明尼 阿波利斯学习手工艺，靠打零工养活自己。19191924年，他在巴黎的朱利安学院任教 1934年后， 他成为美术系的一名教授，直至去世。
●1920 to 1928, he traveled to Europe, Under the impact of Ike Fan Yang, He defined the personal creative style.1930,he completed his most famous painting American Gothic
Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930) Art Institute of Chicago
The man looks straight ahead without a focus, his lips sealed（紧闭） and his emaciated（瘦弱的；憔悴的 ） face written with solemnity（庄严）. There is a pair of round glasses wearing on his nose which reveals a certain degree of meticulosity（一丝 不苟）.
American Gothic
—A Famous Symbols of
American Culture
Speaker：周能瑜
《American Gothic》
Artist Year
Type Location
Grant Wood 1930
Oil on bute of Chicago

But some art critics
accused the painting is “insulting cartoons of ordinary rural people ”.


Another reading is that it
is an ambiguous fusion of reverence and parody.另 一种解读是，它是一个模糊 的崇敬和模仿融合。
● Then Grant Wood taught painting in Iowa art college . And he help hometown artists spent Great Depression February 12, 1942, Grant Wood died due to liver cancer at the university hospital.
a) Standing beside him is a woman in a classic Victorian outfit（维多利亚时 代的服饰）.
b) she does not show a single trail of smile on her face （不苟言笑） because rigor（严谨）, restraint（矜持）, industry（勤劳） and self-control（克己） are deemed as virtues for women at that time. c) She stands slightly behind him and her eyes are staring at him.
I agree
一些艺术评论家指责， 画的是“普通的农村人 的侮辱漫画”.
I disagree
Grant Wood’s other works
This just is American Gothic.
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d) All appearances point to the fact that she is at the his back and call （唯他是听）.
This is the house provided idea to Wood. In 1930, Grant Wood, noticed a small white house built in the Carpenter Gothic architectural style in Eldon, Iowa. Wood decided to paint the house. 就是这个房子让激发伍德的想 象。 1930年，格兰特伍德， 看到一个白色的小木匠的哥特 式建筑风格的房子建在爱荷华 州艾尔敦。伍德决定油漆房子。
American Gothic
Mona Lisa
The Scream
The painting shows a man standing beside a woman .The figures were modeled by the artist’s dentist and sister. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron（围裙） mimicking（模仿） 19th century American and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man’s pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman‘s right shoulder suggesting domesticity（家庭生 活，顾家）.
· On his overalls has stitching
（缝合）which looks like a shadow of pitchfork which is gripped in his hand and standing in front of his body. Both of the two “forks’’ are protecting his traditional world. 他的工作服拼接，看起来像一个叉子 的阴影笼罩在他的身体面前。都是两 个“叉”，保护自己的传统世界。
I am wood’s sister
Hello ,I am the dentist of wood
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"American Gothic”, perhaps not be so famous, but the gothic windows in the picture, especially the farmer grave expression, and the long neck wife make painter be famous overnight in 1930.
The intruduction of Grant Wood
Grant Wood is a painter of the U.S. （1892-1942） Wood was born in Anamosa, Iowa. He was in Minneapolis to learn arts and crafts, by doing odd jobs to feed himselves. 1919-1924, he taught Julian in Paris. 1934, he became a professor in the Department of Fine Arts, until his death.