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the painting, by grant wood. i know there was a thread before but it wasn't about the painting as such.

what are your views on this painting?

― gareth, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i once stood in front of it when i was 11 at the chicago art institute.

― marianna, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it was painting of the week in last Saturday's Guardian.

― N., Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

had the kid who played the kid in AG been about 5 years older, his ass would've been mine.

― Queen G (no relation to Brad), Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a movie called American Gothic which used to make me PISS MY PANTS!. clap clap you got to see it... adult males dressed as kids, mummified babies. wooh. I like the painting, sombre, symbolic and austere the pitchfork was always a little menacing to me and then theres the happy lil dog in the background.

― jeska, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The movie has Rod Steiger in it and the site i looked it up on rated it D. worth a look if you like bgrade horror/suspense. My brain needs a vacuum I think I conflated the Jan van Eyk painting- that Woods painting references, superimposing a happy dog in there. oh well it works for me.

― jeska, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it has no happy dog = it is not art

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Big fan of Lanseer are we?

― felicity, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lanseer = Landseer

― felicity, P.R.A., Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Seer of Land. He, she or it observes the loam of the earth.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

it still interests me. how does it relate to other works of same period?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

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