"American Gothic", Grant Wood, 1930

The picture with gloomy images of the father and daughter is full of details that indicate the severity, puritanism, and retrograde of the depicted people. Angry faces, pitchfork right in the middle of the picture, old-fashioned clothes, seams on the farmer's clothes, repeating the shape of the pitchfork, as a symbol of the threat, which is addressed to all who will encroach. The canvas is full of gloomy details that make you shudder.

"American Gothic" - one of the most recognizable images in American art of the XX century, the most famous art memorial of the XX and XXI centuries.

Interestingly, the judges of the competition at the Chicago Institute of Arts perceived the "Gothic" as a "humorous valentine", and the people of Iowa took offense at Wood because he portrayed them in such an unpleasant light.