Grant wood

1891 – 1942

Iowa, USA

Regionalist (artists who painted the natural

landscape and the people of the Midwest)

Iowa

He liked to paint carefully, using crisp lines and solid shapes. He didn’t like the styles that were popular at the time such as Impressionism.

Waterlilies Claude Monet

Young Corn Grant Wood

Grant’s art was based on the people, places and events he saw around him as a young boy on his family’s farm. His paintings featured family members, friends, and places from his youth. Who do you think is the woman in Woman with the Plants?

American Gothic

features his sister and his dentist!

• The coloring of the trees distinguish the beginning of autumn and changing of season

• Neatly patterned haystacks represent the

farmer and his systematic ways / organized

• Small Horizon – depicting birds eye view

• Do you see windmill and farm equipment?

Project:• Draw horizon• Add hills/ separate landscape into various

regions color using fall colors: yellow, yellow-green, gold brown, orange, red

• Add a house/ barn shed, plow• Hide a windmill somewhere in picture• Add geometric, repeating, orderly patterns in

your fields

• Show other similar picture to fall plowing and ask what they have in common

• End with “Fall Plowing”• Important points to incorporate into YOUR

picture: Fall season-colors-, “birds eye view”, repetition of shapes (crops, trees etc), Rural scene