Puzzles for adults Grant Wood: American Gothic - Flame Tree Publishing

An exciting part of the solid, square 1000-piece puzzle series from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new puzzle will satisfy your challenge craving with a masterpiece of contemporary American art, Grant Wood's American Gothic. This 1000-piece jigsaw is suitable for adults and children over 13 years old. Not suitable for children under 3 due to small parts. The finished puzzle size is 735 x 510 mm / 29 x 20 inches. Now includes an A4 poster for informational purposes.

Grant Wood's image depicting two stoic Iowa citizens standing in front of a Gothic-style house has become a classic of contemporary American art. Based on a painting by Wood's daughter and a local dentist, it serves as a provocative declaration of mundane regionalism in a cultural world then dominated by European and Russian modernist trends, perhaps a respite for the expressive works of Picasso, Kandinsky, and their colleagues. American Gothic folk art presents a familiar world of local history, saturated with echoes of Old West photography, featuring proud homeowners awkwardly standing in front of their pioneer homes. However, wood subtly questions the simplicity of the image, with darker implications of the Gothic window, tricorn hat, and the raw expression of the characters, drawing viewers into a more mysterious world of long, dark nights in the American Gothic village.

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