Grant+Wood

__//** Artist: Grant Wood **//__
 * Group Members: Evan Fritson **

==First Impression: The mood that this makes me feel was calm and tired. it also has a very realistic feel with the shadows and the detail on the tree and the house and also seems to be focusing on the tree more that the small house. This painting uses a lot of dark colors like brown and grey on the trees, the pot and shadows. it also has many details like a clay pot, a smaller tree in the background, shadows and much more. this painting makes it so it feels like there is a bigger picture and this is a small part of that bigger picture.==

==He studied a lot of painters in Europe and used some of the same techniques as Van Gogh. He followed realism but also had some impressionism influences. The tree has strong lines which is more realistic but the different leave colors mixed are more like impressionism, which uses mixed colors, light, and soft lines to fade everything together. Also uses some of the same browns Van Gogh uses.== The Tree:

American Gothic: Post: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565

==My first impression on this painting is that it is more on the Midwestern theme with the pitchfork, house and the barn. it looks like a Family portrait with husband and a wife. This makes me feel tired and calm and that there is no feel of movement and that it is a still picture.==

==Second impression: After some research o found out this is not a family portrait and that the man in the picture is Grant woods dentist and the woman is his sister. When he was learning art in high school he loved Northern renaissance and the realistic feel and how all of the color blend together==

Young Corn:

==My first impression on this painting was how it was a farm with big hills and lots of trees. It also shows people farming. the perspective is very close and far. this painting make me feel very relaxed and calm and makes me feel like this is a small picture with a big story.==

My second impression was that he mainly focuses on the Midwest type feel
 When we first saw the picture “Stone City Iowa” by: Grant Wood, we saw a lot of yellow hills. We also noticed a sense of perspective and a mixture of both primary and secondary colors. There was a peaceful feeling created by lots of nature like trees and bushes. There were farms, animals and a town. There is also a long winding road that goes all the way until the end of the painting. We also noticed the style of the painting. It was a regional painting. A regional painting is the opposite of a realistic painting. Then after we did some research, we found out that he is known for his realistic paintings which is confusing because this is regional. But then with further research, we found that he gave up this style of painting and switched over to realistic drawings. This was Wood’s first major landscape. This was painted in the same year that the American Gothic was painted. Stone City, Iowa was a dialogue about change that was often threaded through Wood's paintings. This painting also reflected the transitions brought about in a rural community by industrialization. Wood shows the purpose of animals grazing and crops by making it feel as if we went back in time. We also found out that he was born in Iowa and died in Iowa. This explains why he painted Iowa.