1. Grant wood 1891 – 1942 Iowa, USA Regionalist (artists who painted the natural landscape and the people of the Midwest) Iowa

2. 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

4. 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 ?

5. American Gothic features his sister and his dentist!

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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