Grant Wood, painter of 'American Gothic' grew up and painted this picture in Iowa. While he said the title referred to the gothic architecture (in particular, the building's arched windowframe), the subjects' blank, closed expressions, plus the pitchfork, make me read them as gothic fiction characters, a pair with a secret knowledge of something violent, deviant, diabolical. A horror.Wednesday, 2 May 2007
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Grant Wood, painter of 'American Gothic' grew up and painted this picture in Iowa. While he said the title referred to the gothic architecture (in particular, the building's arched windowframe), the subjects' blank, closed expressions, plus the pitchfork, make me read them as gothic fiction characters, a pair with a secret knowledge of something violent, deviant, diabolical. A horror.
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