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American Gothic by Grant DeVolson 1930.

Artist: Grant Wood (1892-1941) was not all he seemed. In the 1930s he became famous in the US as one of the leading figures in the Regionalist movement, an anti-modern, anti-European campaign for a purely and folklorically American art. Regionalist painters rejected the big cosmopolitan cities and depicted, in quite homely ways, rural America. This was the one American art movement that came from, and identified with, the midwestern heartland, rather than the east coast or California.

Inspirations and influences: Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434) is a model for this painting, as a double domestic portrait and as a mystery.

Where is it? The Art Institute of Chicago

Wikipedia reads about the original painting:
” the man’s pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman’s right shoulder suggesting domesticity.”
In the frame above, we see a tractor’s engine over Dexter’s shoulder.

http://servetulas.com/blog/2011/11/american-gothic-dexter-season-6-episode-7/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2002/may/18/art

(Source: demidieux)