Grant Wood

Some of the prominent artists of this movement were/are: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschaka, Alfred Kubin, Vincent Van Gogh, Kathe Kollwitz, Wassily Kandinsky and Edvard Munch.

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Grant Wood was born February 13, 1891, near Anamosa, Iowa, and spent much of his lifetime working and teaching in his home state. During his years there, he taught in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, public schools and, later, was a Professor of Fine Arts at the

The front of the painting shows three African American men in the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Each of the men are doing something different. Near the three men, are factories blowing out smoke. In the lower right hand corner, a man is being held back and dragged down by what seems to be a hand made from the smoke, showing that he is still doing work that he does not want to do. Below him are cotton fields, where slaves used to have to work and do hard labor with little to no pay. The man on the bottom left side is shown to also have the hand by him, watching his moves. He is in a pose where he is frustrated and seems to have given up on his dreams. Closer to the center, higher up, stands a third man, playing a saxophone. Music can symbolize freedom and awakening. Along the outer edges of the painting, the colors are dark browns, reds, and oranges. As the focus is drawn closer to the center, lighter colors such as yellow. Darkness, as an archetype, represents despair and the unknown while lightness shows hope, renewal and intelligence. The goals of success, exuberancy, and harmony showed hope and renewal in change in

In this painting we see an infant that is in a boat. Behind the infant there is an angel that is guiding the child out of a cave into a beautiful landscape. Thomas Cole paints the landscape very rich; you get o a sense of warmth and calmness. There is beautiful green land, big mountains, and different types of flowers.

After high school he studied in the United States and Europe and developed an interest in Impressionism. While he was in Germany while working on a commission, it gave him a chance to see early German artwork and giving him influences on his art work, taking it in more of an American direction. One of his first paintings in his new style was American Gothic. This was one of the most iconic and recognizable images in American art. This painting helped Wood to gain fame and launch the Regionalist movement, of which Wood became the spokesperson.

Why do so many artists recreate such similar compositions to that of the painting, “American Gothic” one may ask? A painting of who viewers perceive to be a farming couple, positioned in front of their white farmhouse may not seem like anything special, but perhaps it is the familiarity among viewers that make reinterpretations of the original so successful. Some may even argue that this very painting by Iowan artist Wood Grant is as familiar to Americans as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. I agree and believe this to be true to an extent; however, I question the process that it takes for the viewer to make the connection between the original from 1930, to more recent revisited images. In my essay,

He imagined himself first as a minister but later on as a pharmacist. While in the U.S. Marines, he discovered his love for drawing and became interested in art. After leaving the Marines he studied art in Paris, but moved away from the European ideas of art. He focused on abstract and pop art and was also involved in Expressionism. He rejected the seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists and searched for a new way of painting and finally decided not to focus on just one medium and instead used many different ones. His work had many lines that created shapes and forms along with the use of bold colors. Many different famous figures and people were included in his artwork and depicted

Another prominent visual element in this painting is the shape and mass of the woodpile. The woodpile seems to be placed on a mound and in a stack that gives off a triangular implied shape. Due to the lines formed by edges, the painting also

Vincent Van Gogh painted many figures, landscapes, cityscapes, and sceneries during the post-impressionism art movement. He used lighter palettes of reds, yellows, oranges, greens, and blues. Van Gogh also experimented with broken brushstrokes. The work of impressionists inspired Van Gogh during his trip to Paris. Influenced by a fellow artist, Gauguin, Van Gogh began to paint from memory, making his paintings more decorative and less accurate. His unique techniques inspired many artists including Matisse, Derain, Pollock, and Bacon. Each of these artists adopted/extended Van Gogh’s style to preserve his techniques.

his motivation and inspiration from Scottish traditions and blended with the flourish of Art Nouveau

This painting is in the theme of “nature”. The title of this painting, “Boschbrand” is referring to forest fire. It dramatically represents a scene of a forest fire and how wild animals are being chased by flames to the edge of a precipice. (Gallery descriptor) This portrays how our environment is changing and having a negative impact on the nature; which is the home to many animals.

He would make his brush strokes thicker or thinner depending on what he was creating. He was most famous for being a huge part of the Impressionist Movement.

fame. He made a great choice by using mostly warm colors in his painting. He used colors such

However, he did more than make lines and squares. He did lots of paintings of figures as well. Some of his painting were formed by a style known as Cubism. I like his art because lots of his pieces were very simple but others were a little more complex in which showed more of his talent (www.theartstory.org).