What is she looking at

doesn't matter, she just has a vacant stare

His firm grim on his pitchfork and steady stare reflects on how he is set in his ways. He's probably a strict man who is content with what little they have. She looks to her husband, standing slightly behind him, following him as she has done throughout their marriage. A mousy thing, in her conservative clothes and plain looks, understands she will never know anything better than the life they share. Maybe she has a little bit of despondent resignation to their lot in life, maybe a bit in resentfulness for her husband and his unbending ways.

He put on a clean jacket to look good for the painting, but underneath is his filthy overalls, coated in the dirt he lives on, grows his crops in, and will eventually be buried in.

>>2694439
Seek help.

>>2694439
>She looks to her husband
father

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>>2694457

>>2694457
Artist never said what their relationship is. It's generally assumed to be either the wife or daughter. Hard to say really.

>The critics who admired the painting in the early '30s—including Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley—also assumed it was a satire about the rigidity of American rural or small-town life, lampooning the people H. L. Mencken called the "booboisie" of the "Bible Belt." As Biel explains, "American Gothic appeared to its first viewers as the visual equivalent of the revolt-against-the-provinces genre in 1910s and 1920s American literature"—a critique of provincialism akin to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and Carl Van Vechten's The Tattooed Countess.

>But a few years later, as the nation sank into the Great Depression, people started to see Wood's painting in a different light. American Gothic was no longer understood as satirical, but as a celebratory expression of populist nationalism. Critics extolled the farmer and his wife as steadfast embodiments of American virtue and the pioneer spirit. "American democracy was built upon the labors of men and women of stout hearts and firm jaws, such people as those above," read one caption in 1935.

>>2694439
Neat anon

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>>2694408
The seam behind his head.

>>2694408
>In american gothic what is the woman looking at?
at current situation with Tump VS Hillary debates

>>2694408
Probably something work related. She worked a hard life and is probably stressed about what she's looking at. It's probably her kid in the fields. Or maybe her laundry just got taken by the wind.

>>2694440
Won't make it.

Not saying he necessarily is right but the ability to associate freely as well as analyzing content, context and character is very important if you ever wanna make good meaningful art.

The life she could have had.

>>2694459
In the end it doesn't even really matter since the message (>>2694439) is almost the same