what is the name of the famous art piece w/ an old couple in front of a house w/ the man holding a pitchfork?

Question

I'm thinking it's Van Gogh.

Answer 1

American Gothic
American Regionalists
painting
1930
Grant Wood

many years after Van Gogh passed away

Answer 2

I like it. I'd be tempted to move more of the diction into a more naturalistic style. Sometimes at the moment it seems a little too abbreviated, just for example 'waved goodbye when my shift was done' - I guess you have the 'I' in the previous line, so there's no struggle over the meaning, just the lines might feel a little more relaxed if you made more of them into natural sentences. Sometimes it would be enough just to add a little more punctuation to guide the reader. I think you could relax a little on rhyme too, for example, 'if you like it, please tell me' seems more natural, and I think you could get away with moving the rhyme word off the line end, since the 'me' is so unobtrusive. I think the reader would still hear the well / tell rhyme. I like this sort of double-quatrain stanza. It structures the poem nicely. The stanza that I think works least well is the last one, where 'head in streams' and 'humility effects' both look forced for the sake of the rhyme. I also don't quite follow the sense in the start of the stanza - the nurse told you that you didn't like her? Then someone else says the nurse can be mean, then someone else (the nurse again?) tells you to get on with sponge-bathing the patients? I'd also be tempted to write this out as a prose poem, not worrying about rhyme at all, just trying to say it all in the simplest, most direct way. I'm glad you're continuing to work on it. It's definitely worth it.

Answer 3

No, it's not Van Gogh. Titled "American Gothic," it's by Grant Woods.

Answer 4

The piece is titled American Gothic.
The artist was Grant Wood.

My primary residence is in Iowa and the piece was being considered at one time for the new State quarter.

Answer 5

American Gothic by Grant Wood

Answer 6

American Gothic by Grant Wood

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_5.shtml

Answer 7

American Gothic