ART Cards: American Gothic

Reward good behavior with ART Cards featuring a brief overview of Grant Wood and American Gothic. The downloadable file includes (18) FREE parodies featuring fun pop culture icons. I've printed each page separately on a piece of letter-sized paper (8.5"x11"), and glued the front and backs of the prints on card stock to give a substantial look and feel. My students absolutely LOVE them and are better behaved with the hopes of choosing one. ART Cards are fun, engaging and educational.

The content of one side of the card provides a brief overview of Grant Wood, the American Gothic painting, and vocabulary words to get students better acquainted with terms commonly used in the art field.

The content reads:

American Gothic

Grant Wood (1891-1942)

Grant Wood was an American trained designer, craftsman, and painter. He is best known for painting American Gothic which features a farmer holdinga pitchfork along with his gazing daughter in front of their farmhouse. Wood used shape, balance and rhythm to create an impressive composition. The shape and rhythm of the pitchfork is strategically repeated in the farmers’ overalls, face and the top farmhouse window. American Gothic is one of the most iconic paintings in American history.

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Designer: a person who plans the form and workings of something before it’s created by first drawing it in detail.

Rhythm: a principle of art that creates movement through repetition in an organized way.

Composition: the arrangement and placement of various visual elements in an art piece.