Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 19 Grant Wood Questions: |
Look Questions
1. What is the focal point/main subject of this painting? What in the picture led you to your answer?
2. This is the birthplace of the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover. What clues tell you that this painting shows Hoover's birthplace later on in his life? Where are the visitors at this tourist attraction? For whom is the tour guide pointing the way?
3. Grant Wood's STYLE can be compared to American FOLK ART because of the way he simplified forms. What forms did he simplify in this painting?
4. Grant Wood created PATTERN in this painting by repeating lines and forms. Where do you see repeated lines? Where do you see repeated forms that make pattern?
5. What time of year is it in this painting? How can you tell? What time of day is it? How can you tell?
6. What PERSPECTIVE techniques did Grant Wood use to create the illusion of depth?
7. Grant Wood was a GENRE painter. He was interested in painting scenes from everyday life in the midwestern United States. What is "everyday" about the scene in this painting? What is not "everyday"?
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