um…in American Gothic, the woman was the farmer's niece, not wife.

If you look beyond the obvious gimmick (and even including it) this is really a poor piece of art. I know its going for the whole comic book grapihc design thing, but lohan's face and neck are entirely flat with no real shading and the filters applied to sam's face are weak. This is why I think graphic design prints (and I'm assuming that's what this is, judging by the look of it) don't really belong in fine art galleries. A nice piece of advertising or something to go beside a mocking headline in hello magazine maybe, but…

@fortunekooky: The model who posed as the woman (Artist Grand Wood's cousin) told people it was a man and his daughter after a rural backlash against the perceived derision of the painting, but Wood never confirmed nor denied this, and the plain reading of the painting is that it portrays a couple in front of their home.

@J: Thank goodness – we've finally found someone with the answer to the eternal question of, 'what is art?'.

O Wond'rous Oracle, prepare yourself for a deluge of calls from the ruined mortal 'experts', whose careers you have lain to waste by the sharing of your enlightened knowledge!

:)