He went to Munich, Germany and there saw the sharply detailed art of 15th-16th-century masters like Holbein and Durer. He also admired the Holbein-influenced German painter Wilhelm Leibl and the art of his own contemporary, Otto Dix. In their attention to the details of everyday life and in the clean, hard quality of their paintings, Wood found the art technique for which he had been hunting. He abandoned impressionism.
His famous "American Gothic" caused a sensation when it was exhibited in Chicago in 1930. The hard, cold realism of the technique displayed in the painting and the honest, direct, earthy quality of the subject were unique in US art.
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The Art of Realism
Grant Wood, the American Regionalist painter, produced one the best-known and greatest works of American art, 'American Gothic'.
He went to Munich, Germany and there saw the sharply detailed art of 15th-16th-century masters like Holbein and Durer. He also admired the Holbein-influenced German painter Wilhelm Leibl and the art of his own contemporary, Otto Dix. In their attention to the details of everyday life and in the clean, hard quality of their paintings, Wood found the art technique for which he had been hunting. He abandoned impressionism.
His famous "American Gothic" caused a sensation when it was exhibited in Chicago in 1930. The hard, cold realism of the technique displayed in the painting and the honest, direct, earthy quality of the subject were unique in US art.
Irish Art
He went to Munich, Germany and there saw the sharply detailed art of 15th-16th-century masters like Holbein and Durer. He also admired the Holbein-influenced German painter Wilhelm Leibl and the art of his own contemporary, Otto Dix. In their attention to the details of everyday life and in the clean, hard quality of their paintings, Wood found the art technique for which he had been hunting. He abandoned impressionism.
His famous "American Gothic" caused a sensation when it was exhibited in Chicago in 1930. The hard, cold realism of the technique displayed in the painting and the honest, direct, earthy quality of the subject were unique in US art.
Irish Art
