Grant Wood American Gothic Analysis

‘American Gothic’ is a painting by Grant Wood, this work is basically shows the different statue of two gender. The house behide the major figure grab audience attentions, which was the quaint architectural style: American Gothic, the artist uses the house to paint a satire of modern American culture. And looks at the figure, the man’s eyes looks straight forward, shows a sense of serious atmosphere, and there is a pitchfork in his hand, shows the Male authority and power, and the woman at the side looks at the man, and the woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana. This painting shows that woman looks like being control by the man, and the work shows the ‘machisomo’ in the society.