大学英语—American Gothic—美国哥特式.pptx

,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,2012/12/20,#,American Gothic,Made by Blue Chen Group,The Goths,The Goths were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian,（斯堪的那维亚人）,origin who played an important role in the history of the Rome Empire after they appeared on its lower Danube frontier in the 3,rd,century.Throughout their history,the Goths founded several powerful kingdoms in Europe,and played the major role in the defeat of the Huns,（匈奴）,and the initiation of the Reconquista(,再征服,).Nowadays the Goths mostly mean to Punk,The ancient Goths,Punk,Gothic Architecture,Gothic architecture,is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period.It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.A,A stone skeleton comprising clustered columns and pointed ribbed vaults,flying,buttresses,Gothic novel and movie,The literary Gothic occurred about 1800AC its charecteristics is to embody an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion,the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime,and a quest for,atmosphere,.,Grant DeVolson Wood,Grant DeVolson Wood,was the author of above painting called American Gothic.He was born in Anamosa,Iowa,in February 13,1891;He began as an apprentice in a local metal shop after his father died in 1901;After graduating from Washington High Shcool,Wood enrolled in an art school inMinneapolis in 1910.In 1913 he enrolled at theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago and did some work as a silversmith.From 1920 to 1928 he made four trips to Europe,where he studied many styles of painting,especially impressionism and post impressionism.Wood taught painting at theUniversity of Iowas School of Art in which he produced a variety of his own works from 1934 to 1941.On February 12,1942,one day before his 51st birthday,Wood died at the university hospital of liver cancer.His main works are The Little Chapel Chancelade,Woman with PlantsJohn B.Turner,Pioneer,Stone City,Iowa,Creating Background,Wood was addicted to the Gothic Art of Munich when he travel there in 1928.And in August,in 1930,Wood saw a house in a Gothic style in a small town,the south of Iowa,its special design and structure left him a deep impression,he imagined that a farmer and his daughter were standing in front of it,and took a photo.He asked his daughter and dentist as the models and spent two months on finishing the work.,Main Idea,When it began to be reproduced in newspapers,a art critic pointed that it insulted the common farmer,someone said both The painting has been interpreted as a full-blown satire of mid-Western types and suspicions,but Wood denied both.And it has also been adopted as the icon of middle America-staunch,right-thinking,and fearless.,The manspitchfork and hand with concreteshowed how hard their lives were;the firm Gothic house meant to American bedrock of Agricultural Culture;perhaps Wood intended to remind his audience that the America was not built on a bedrock of complexity but rather on a bedrock of solid farmers,dating back to Thomas Jeffersons idealized yeoman.But during World War II,the painting was used as a propaganda(,宣传,)piece;it was meant to remind the American public what they were defending and local commentators usually saw the painting in a benign light.,Now,the paint is being explained,maybe you have come up with a good idea when you are listening my report,welcome to talk with our group,Blue Chen(,蓝宸,)Group,