Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891. He was raised in a farm like environment for example he wasn't raised in the city. From 1920 to 1928 he studied painting styles like impressionism after he graduated high school in 1910.
Somebody that inspired him was a painter named Jan van Eyck. This person inspired Grant Wood by making a new technique of art. Jan van Eyck was part of the renaissance time period and he drew very realistic due to what the people liked at the time period. So I think that had to do alot about the inspiration of drawing realistic.
Grant wood made this painting because he was inspired and sort of fascinated by a house known as the American Gothic house. He was inspired by the design of the house's window. One thing that I liked about this painting is that Grant Wood painted the people that he thought would live in that type of house at the time. Since he was not from the city and in the early 1900's this is how he would have imagined the wealthy people at the time.
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