《美国哥特人》

1、catalog目录 introduction history evaluation about author recent dynamic动态 组员： 王艳玲、 哈凯利、 曾宇翔、 白洋洋、 王倩雯、 周瑜 expansion延伸 introduction 王 燕 玲 american gothic a famous symbols of american culture it is one of the most famous paintings in american art, and one of the few images to reach the status of univers

2、ally recognised cultural icon（图标）, comparable to leonardo da vincis mona lisa and edvard munchs the scream. the painting shows a serious- looking farmer standing beside his spinster（未婚女子）daughter in front of a farmhouse. grant wood liked to paint faces he knew well. for the grave farmer he used his

3、dentist, a sour-looking （愁眉不展的）man. for the woman standing alongside him, wood chose his sister, nan. the inspiration of background came from a cottage designed in the gothic revival style with an upper window in the shape of a medieval pointed arch（尖拱）. grant wood, american gothic (1930) art instit

4、ute of chicago back history 哈 凯 利 although the two were standing in a painting, but in fact these two characters is done under different occasions. it was first exhibited in 1930 at the art institute of chicago, where it is still located. it was given a $300 prize and made news stories country-wide,

5、 bringing wood immediate recognition. since then, it has been borrowed and satirised（讽 刺） endlessly for advertisements and cartoons. in 1928, grant wood went to munich, where he fell in love with gothic art. in 1930, wood saw a gothic style house in southern iowa, which was built in 1880s. the house

6、 impressed wood . he imagined a farmer and his daughter standing in front of the house, and then photographed pictures of the house back to his studio. he asked his dentist, and his sister as a model figure painting, and allow them to wear 19th century victorian era（年代） clothes. back 1928慕尼黑爱上哥特式艺术。

7、 1930爱荷华州南部爱荷华州南部19世纪世纪80年代建年代建 造的哥特式风格的木房子留下深刻印象造的哥特式风格的木房子留下深刻印象 他想象一个农民和他的女儿站在房子前他想象一个农民和他的女儿站在房子前 面，然后回到他的工作室拍照的房子的面，然后回到他的工作室拍照的房子的 照片。他问他的牙医，和他的妹妹，作照片。他问他的牙医，和他的妹妹，作 为一种模式人物画，并让他们穿上为一种模式人物画，并让他们穿上19世世 纪的维多利亚时代（年代）的衣服。纪的维多利亚时代（年代）的衣服。 虽然两个人站在一幅画，但实际上这两虽然两个人站在一幅画，但实际上这两 个人物是不同的场合下进行。个人物是不同的场合下进行

8、。 1930首次展出于芝加哥艺术学院首次展出于芝加哥艺术学院 back history evaluation 曾 宇 翔 此画体现了美国农民庄严 的自豪，它既代表了在农 业占主导地位的年代，农 民们勤劳耕作的精神，也 象征着在19世纪男权社会 中，不容置疑的男性权威 和力量。 this painting reflects the solemn pride in both the united states on behalf of farmers in agriculture-dominated era, farmers cultivate the spirit of hard work, b

9、ut also a symbol of the patriarchal society in the 19th century, the unquestionable authority and power of men. with the onset of the great depression, it came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast （坚定的）american pioneer spirit. another reading is that it is an ambiguous（模 糊） fusion （融合）of reverence

10、（崇敬） and parody（朝拜）. but some art critics accused the painting is“insulting（辱骂的） cartoons of ordinary rural people “. i agree i disagree back about author i like to paint faces i know well. grant wood back 白 洋 洋 untitled.bmp grant wood american painter, born in anamosa, iowa. a large number of his p

11、aintings depicting the rural american midwest style. his most famous painting is american gothic 1920 to 1928, he traveled to europe, under the impact of ike fan yang, he defined the personal creative style. 1930,he complete his most famous painting -american gothic then grant wood taught painting i

12、n iowa art college . 1934, he became a professor in the department of fine arts, until his death. and he help hometown artists spent great depression february 12, 1942, grant wood died due to liver cancer at the university hospital. this is the house provided idea to wood. next，lets appreciate some

13、of the rest of his works together. grant woods other works back expansion 王 倩 雯 germanic people goths or gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of east germanic tribes （日耳曼部落） gothic language, an extinct east germanic language, spoken by the goths crimean gothic, the gothic language spoken by the cr

14、imean goths gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the gothic language gothic (term), a term used to describe things pertaining to the gothic people medieval culture gothic art, a medieval art movement gothic architecture romanticism gothic fiction or gothic romanticism, a british literary genre gothic revival architecture modern culture gothic subculture gothic