ART PROJECT

• Grant wood
• Caleb Crabtree

GRANT WOOD

• Born: February 13,1891
• Died: February 12, 1942
• Anamosa City in Iowa

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• Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, an iconic painting of the 20th century.

INTERESTING FACTS

• He moved to Cedar Rapids when he was ten years old after the death of his father.
• He died because of Pancreatic cancer.
• He painted all of his artwork.
• Strait lines and also curved lines

(1930)

• American gothic
• Made in (1930)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/horizontal, vertical,diagonal
• Texture/ smooth
• Shape/organic

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/the old man and women are standing out in this picture.
• Pattern/ the pattern in the cloths are repeated.
• Proportion/ the old man and women stand out more than anything else.

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• Daughters of Revolution
• (1932)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/horizontal, vertical,diagonal
• Texture/ smooth
• Shape/organic

PRINCIPLES OF R

• Emphasis/the three ladies are standing out in this picture.
• Pattern/the pattern in the girls shirts are repeated.
• Proportion/ the three ladies stand out more than anything else in the painting.

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• Young Corn
• (1931)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/horizontal, vertical,diagonal and curved.
• Texture/ smooth
• Shape/organic

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/the prairie is standing out in this picture.
• Pattern/the pattern in the leaves are repeated.
• Proportion/ the prairies stand out more than anything else in the picture it is bigger than the rest of the picture.

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• Plaid Sweater
• (1931)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/horizontal, vertical,diagonal and curved.
• Texture/ smooth
• Shape/organic and geometric.

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ he made the boy stand out in this painting.
• Pattern/the pattern in the boys shirt is repeated.
• Proportion/ the boy stands out more than the rest of the picture it is bigger.

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• The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover
• (1931)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/horizontal, vertical,diagonal and curved.
• Texture/ smooth
• Shape/organic

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/he makes the trees stand out in this painting.
• Pattern/the pattern in the leaves are repeated.
• Proportion/ the trees stand out more than the rest of the things in the picture.

OPINION

• I chose these paintings because they show a lot of detail in them and they way he painted them felt like you could kinda feel it.

SOURCES

• I found the pictures and facts on google.
• Xroads.Virgina.edu

ART PROJECT

• T.C.Steele
• Caleb Crabtree

T.C.STEELE

• Born: September 11, 1847, Gosport, IN Died: July 24, 1926, Brown County, Indiana, IN

ART MOVEMENT

• Known for, American Impressionism, Painting.
• American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

INTERESTING FACTS

• In 1907, Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926), became the first major artist to make a home in Brown County, Indiana.
• over 50 paintings on display in the Large Studio and House of the Singing Winds

THE OLD MILLS

• (1903)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/ horizontal, vertical, curved and zigzag.
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ he makes the mills stand out.
• Movement/ the person looking at the painting will look at the mills first them move to the trees then anything else there would be.
• Variety/ he makes the mills appear more to the reader than anything else.

THE BOATMAN

• (1884)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/ diagonal,curved
• Shape/organic
• Texture/ smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ he makes the boatman stand out.
• Movement/ the person looking at the painting will look at the boatman mostly.
• Variety/ the person looking at the picture will look at the boatman because he is the biggest thing on the painting.

VERNON BEECHES

• (1892)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/horizontal,curved and diagonal.
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ the 2 trees stand out.
• Movement/ the person looking at this painting will look at the 2 trees then start to look at the little things like the leaves and the rocks.
• Variety/ the painter made the 2 trees bigger than the rest of the things in the painting.

COWS BY THE STREAM

• (1895)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/vertical,horizontal, and zigzag
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ he makes the 2 cows stand out next to the stream.
• Movement/ the person looking at the painting will look at the 2 cows then start to look at the stream then the trees and so on.
• Variety/ the artist made the 2 cows so small to make the stream and the world around them look big.

TALBOTT PLACE

• (1897)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/ vertical, horizontal, diagonal,curved
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ he makes the person look at the building witch is the main thing.
• Movement/ the artist wants you to look at the building first then the trees then anything else.
• Variety/he made the building bigger than everything else so it sticks out to you.

WEBSITES

• http://www.tcsteele.org/

MY OPINION

• I chose these paintings because it shows how much he loves to make things stick out the way he did.

ART PROJECT

• Georgin O Keeffe
• Caleb Crabtree

GEORGIN O KEEFFE

• Born: November 15, 1887, Sun Prairie, WI Died: March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, NM

ART MOVEMENT

• Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".

INTERESTING FACTS

• She made over 200 flower paintings.
• She used watercolor, pencil, and clay to make her artwork.
• Photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keeffe her first gallery show in 1916.

Grey and Brown Leaves

• (1929)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/vertical, curved, horizontal,zigzag.
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ she makes the person looking at the artwork look at the leaf.
• Movement/ she wants you to just look at the leaf then look at the detail she put into the leaf.
• Variety/ she made the leaf big so that that’s the first thing you look at.

PINK TULIP

• (1926)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/vertical and curved.
• Shape/organic
• Texture/rough

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/she makes you look at the pink tulip.
• Movement/ she makes you look at the tulip then go into detail.
• Variety/ she made the tulip much bigger that everything else so you would just mainly look at it.

JIMSON WEED

• (1932)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/vertical, horizontal, curved
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/she makes the weed stick out more than anything else she wants you to look at it.
• Movement/she makes you look at the bigger picture first witch is the weed the she makes you look at the detailed in it and around it.
• Variety/ she made the weed bigger than anything else.

CALLA LILLY

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/vertical, horizontal, and curved.
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ she makes the Lilly stick out to the person looking at the painting.
• Movement/ she makes you look at the Lilly first then she wants you to look at the details in the Lilly.
• Variety/ she made the Lilly bigger than the rest of the painting.

pink ornamental banana

• (1939)

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line/vertical, horizontal,and curved.
• Shape/organic
• Texture/smooth

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Emphasis/ she makes the pink ornamental banana stand out.
• Movement/ she wants you to look at the banana and then any details around it.
• Variety/ she made the banana bigger than the rest of the painting because she was trying to stick it out to the person looking at the painting.

WEBSITES

• https://www.artsy.net
• Google images

OPINION

• I chose these paintings because the flowers were colorful and they just stuck out to me and had an interesting look to them.