Cassilis

The 'Monday Gallery' - few, if any, words and just a painting or piece of art that has some resonance or link to contemporary events.

There was only ever one story I was going to use for today's gallery given the weekend's events. When I started looking for a suitable painting I went first to some of the most iconic images in American art - Hopper's 'Nighthawks', Warhol's 'Campbell's Soup Cans' or any number from Rothko or Pollock. And of course Grant Wood's American Gothic from 1930.

For some reason Wood's iconic image stuck in my mind over the weekend. There was no link between the events depicted and the culmination of the race for the Democratic nomination but perhaps because it was a painting of a man and a woman I couldn't shake the mental link I'd formed between it and Hillary & Obama. I also noticed a vague, passing resemblance...

So to my shame I decided to join the legions who've already parodied Wood's work (so often in fact that it rarely gets the attention it deserves as a serious painting) and have a muck about in photoshop. There are others of course who do this sort of thing far better but hey it's just a bit of fun. The Monday Gallery will return to it's high-minded self next week. If anyone sees Brian Sewell please don't tell him....

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