{"id":25958,"date":"2017-02-13T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2019-02-28T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:05:40","slug":"how-american-gothic-became-an-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/02\/how-american-gothic-became-an-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"How American Gothic became an icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20170208-how-american-gothic-became-an-icon\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"p04s63zn\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/p04s63zn.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Wood &#8220;American Gothic&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Is Grant Wood\u2019s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history<\/em>, writes Fisun G\u00fcner.<\/p>\n<p><em>American after the Fall: Painting in the 1930&#8217;s<\/em> opens at the Royal Academy, London, on February 25 and runs through June 4. \u00a0This will be the first time Grant Wood&#8217;s <em>American Gothic<\/em> will travel outside the U.S. and it is the center piece of the 45 work exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20170208-how-american-gothic-became-an-icon\">BBC &#8211; Culture &#8211; How American Gothic became an icon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/exhibition\/america-after-the-fall?gclid=CPTY1-qW9NECFVQ_Gwod59IE9A\">American after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Grant Wood\u2019s famous painting serious or comic? 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