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

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

Grant Wood's image depicting two stoic citizens of Iowa installed in front of a Gothic-style house has become a classic of contemporary American art. Modeled by Wood's daughter and a local dentist, the image is a challenging declaration of prosaic regionalism in a cultural world then dominated by the modernist tendencies of Europe and Russia, perhaps a respite from the expressive works of Picasso, Kandinsky, and their peers. The folk art of American Gothic presents a familiar world of local history and infuses it with echoes of Old West photography, with proud owners standing awkwardly before their pioneer homesteads. Wood, however, seems to subtly undermine the simplicity of the image, with darker implications of the Gothic window, tricorn, and the stern expressions of the characters, drawing the viewer into a more enigmatic world of long, dark nights in the American Gothic countryside.

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