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1. Grant Wood’s painting uses yellow sunlight tints and light values on the sides of the hills to show the time of day.. · Yes o No // Dark values -shades (adding black to a color) and light values - tints (adding white to a color) are seen in this painting on the sides of the hills. // 2. The center of Grant Wood’s painting is mainly warm colors. · Yes o No // Yellow is a warm color // 3. In the Grant Wood painting, the lower LEFT hand corner is a good example of the use of shades of color. · Yes o No // The term shade is used to mean a darker hue – when black is added to a color – in this example, green // 4. Rousseau’s painting contains mainly cool colors. · Yes o No // Blue, and green // 5. The Grant Wood painting has more circle patterns than the Rousseau painting. · Yes o No // There are more of these in the Grant Wood painting than in the Rousseau painting. // 6. Round-shaped trees are a characteristic of the style of Grant Wood paintings. · Yes o No // Using the book, __Grant Wood The Artist in the Hayloft__ (part of the Adventures in Art series by Preste__l)__, see the cover, __Young Corn__ (detail), 1931; p.7 __The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, 1931;__ p.14 __Midnight Ride of Paul Revere__,1931. // // Another book is __Artist in Overalls, The Life of Grant Wood__ by John Duggleby, see p.24 __Fall Plowing__, 1931; ` // 7. Grant Wood makes the buildings seem far away by making them smaller. · Yes o No
 * Handy 4th grade Assessment ANSWER SHEET with explanation **
 * Comparison and Contrast **
 * between paintings of **
 * __Grant Wood’s Stone City, Iowa__, 1930 **
 * And **
 * __ Henri Rousseau’s I Myself – Portrait - Landscape __**

8. Rousseau’s painting is a still life. o Yes · No // As the title denotes, this is a self portrait and a landscape. // 9. Rural themes are the subject of many Grant Wood paintings. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol;">· Yes <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o No // 4th graders should be familiar with the term “ rural” (farm) from their social studies curriculum // 10.  Rousseau uses symbols to tell a story. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol;">· Yes <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o No // When looking closely at the painting you will see the Eifel Tower and he is holding an artist palette and brush. These symbols tell us where he lives (Paris, France) and what he does (he is a painter) // 11. These paintings by Rousseau and Grant Wood are examples of paintings that show personal experience. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol;">· Yes <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o No // These paintings show the viewer where Rousseau lives and what he does – the title also denotes that this is a portrait as well as a landscape. The Grant Wood painting is about a city in Iowa where Grant Wood had an artist’s school. Iowa is the state that he lived in and was, therefore, very familiar with its landscape. These paintings show the viewer that each painter painted from a personal experience – France for Rousseau and the Iowa countryside for Grand Wood. //

12. The Rousseau painting is an example of creating art for the purpose of selling a product. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Yes <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol;">· No // This painting was not created as advertisement to sell a product, but relates to his personal experience. //