Английская Википедия:Arnold Comes of Age

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Шаблон:Good article Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox Artwork Arnold Comes of Age (originally Portrait of Arnold Pyle) is a 1930 oil painting by the American regionalist painter Grant Wood, created as a birthday gift for his studio assistant, Arnold Pyle. Wood took Pyle on as his protégé and was deeply affectionate towards him. The painting depicts a figure looking ahead in a rural landscape, as two nude men bathe in a river. It is reminiscent of Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca's work, in particular The Resurrection, and it is interpreted, as homoerotic from its detailing.

Background and painting

Grant Wood was a regionalist painter from Iowa. During the Great Depression, he became one of the more prominent regionalists of the country.Шаблон:Sfn Arnold Comes of Age was completed in 1930 in celebration of the twenty-first birthday of his studio assistant, Arnold Pyle.Шаблон:Sfn Pyle, a painter himself and protégé of Wood, won blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair for his art depicting the Midwest in 1933, and the grand prize in 1936.Шаблон:Sfn He was heterosexual, and despite the affection that Wood showed him, did not romantically reciprocate—as Wood had done with many of his assistants, he disguised his outward affection as paternal love.Шаблон:Sfn

The painting was originally entitled Portrait of Arnold Pyle.Шаблон:Sfn It depicts an awkward young man looking at the viewer as a butterfly lands on his shirt, set in a countryside while two men bathe in a nearby river.Шаблон:Sfn It is made of oil and is displayed on pressed board.Шаблон:Sfn Its dimensions are Шаблон:Convert tall by Шаблон:Convert across.Шаблон:Sfn

Interpretation

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The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca

The art critic Luciano Cheles says that many of Wood's paintings—including his famous American Gothic—were inspired by works produced during the Italian Renaissance, especially those of the fifteenth-century artist Piero della Francesca.Шаблон:Sfn Arnold Comes of Age may have been inspired by his painting The Resurrection, as the paintings share several similarities.Шаблон:Sfn In both paintings, the central profile is "neatly" set apart from the background, looking at the viewer with a serious gaze; a figure with a distant look was a typical element of della Francesca's art.Шаблон:Sfn The paintings also have two trees framing them: in Wood, one young and one mature, and in della Francesca, one bare and one full of leaves.Шаблон:Sfn For Cheles, these contrasting trees represent life and death, as well as a general transition between two states.Шаблон:Sfn Della Francesca also painted The Baptism of Christ, and Cheles argues that the nude bathers in Wood's painting are similar to that work.Шаблон:Sfn These bathers may symbolize baptism, and consequently, one coming of age.Шаблон:Sfn

Ulysses Grant Dietz, a former curator of The Newark Museum of Art, said that the painting indicates an "obvious love" for Arnold.Шаблон:Sfn Details such as recurrent couplings (of trees, bushes, and stacks of hay) may demonstrate a love for Pyle, and the two nude swimmers in the back could represent the Christian figures Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.Шаблон:Sfn Wood chose to sign his name beside Pyle's beltbuckle—adorned with AP, for Arnold Pyle—perhaps so the two men could have their names forever linked.Шаблон:Sfn Arnold Comes of Age also depicts a butterfly—which was understood at the time as a gay symbol—landing on Arnold's shirt.Шаблон:Sfn The painting is thought to be homoerotic,Шаблон:Sfn although critic Faye Hirsch says this interpretation allows researchers to make claims about Wood's life with only minimal evidence.Шаблон:Sfn

History

After Arnold Comes of Age was completed, Wood entered it into the 1930, Iowa State Fair Art Salon.Шаблон:Sfn Wood was well-established at the time and had earlier exhibited at galleries in Paris.Шаблон:Sfn However, as a regionalist committed to promoting the artistic movement, he decided to show Arnold Comes of Age and other paintings in Iowa instead.Шаблон:Sfn Arnold Comes of Age won the grand prize, and his painting Stone City, Iowa won the landscape category.Шаблон:Sfn

Arnold Comes of Age was displayed in a 1940 Nebraskan show alongside Stone City, Iowa and John B. Turner, Pioneer,Шаблон:Sfn a portrait of the father of his patron David Turner that Wood completed in 1929–30.Шаблон:Sfn These were all offered for sale, each at a price of between $300 and $400.Шаблон:Sfn The board of trustees for the Nebraska Art Association paid $300 for Arnold Comes of Age, while the Joslyn Art Museum of Omaha acquired Stone City, Iowa.Шаблон:Sfn It has since become one of the most valuable pieces within the Association's permanent collection,Шаблон:Sfn and resides at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska.Шаблон:Sfn The Sheldon Museum of Art holds the artwork of the association, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and other collections.Шаблон:Sfn

For years, it was not shown publicly due to its significant deterioration: discoloration, extensive craquelure, and varnish disappearance plagued the painting.Шаблон:Sfn The bathing figures were, according to Donald Bartlett Doe of the Sheldon, "nearly obliterated".Шаблон:Sfn These problems began some ten years after its completion, but by 1985, they were addressed through restoration.Шаблон:Sfn

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