When Grant Wood painted Spring Turning in 1936, he was influenced largely by renaissance painters, such as Jan Van Eyck. He borrowed their technique in regards to attention to detail and making something with strange, distorted shapes feel hyper-realistic. When Aaron Bohrod painted Hilltop Farm, Lodi, Wisconsin in 1950, he was being taught by John Sloan. This teacher encouraged a more expressionistic approach to painting. Bohrod applied this philosophy to his work by using his paint to sketch the shapes of objects, rather than making precise brush strokes. Grant Wood painted during the Great Depression. Because of this, his work was reflective of the hopeless outlook that many Americans shared at that time. Spring Turning, however, was designed
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The painting is mostly made up of the green on the hills. It has patches of the brown path and the blue sky to give variation. All of the colors are bright gradients to evoke a feeling of smooth convergence. Nothing in the piece stands out in an unpleasant way. Hilltop Farm, Lodi, Wisconsin uses different shades of the same colors to create the opposite effect. The most outstanding colors in the painting are shades of dark blue and grey, which are used to create the sky. This makes the piece feel very cold and harsh. The main colors used on the ground are all different shades of brown. The greens in the painting are mostly dark and murky, except for the roof of the larger shed, which is made up of bright shades of green. The roof almost serves as an oasis amidst the apocalyptic elements in the rest of the piece As Bohrod shows with the smaller shed in the bottom right corner of the frame, he has no interest in gradient or colors smoothly blending together. The different colors on the roof of the shed are clearly distinguishable, breaking any illusion of photorealism. The curved lines in Spring Turning lead the eye in a continuous motion through the hills and around the geography of the painting. There are almost no jagged lines in the painting to distract the viewer from its smooth architecture. This technique creates a bucolic effect of every object in the world of the painting being interconnected and flowing into each other. Hilltop Farm, Lodi, Wisconsin, in contrast, is made up of mostly jagged, sketchy lines. Even the shapes these lines come together to form are anything but smooth, such as the steeple, tree, and pyramidal
The painting is mostly made up of the green on the hills. It has patches of the brown path and the blue sky to give variation. All of the colors are bright gradients to evoke a feeling of smooth convergence. Nothing in the piece stands out in an unpleasant way. Hilltop Farm, Lodi, Wisconsin uses different shades of the same colors to create the opposite effect. The most outstanding colors in the painting are shades of dark blue and grey, which are used to create the sky. This makes the piece feel very cold and harsh. The main colors used on the ground are all different shades of brown. The greens in the painting are mostly dark and murky, except for the roof of the larger shed, which is made up of bright shades of green. The roof almost serves as an oasis amidst the apocalyptic elements in the rest of the piece As Bohrod shows with the smaller shed in the bottom right corner of the frame, he has no interest in gradient or colors smoothly blending together. The different colors on the roof of the shed are clearly distinguishable, breaking any illusion of photorealism. The curved lines in Spring Turning lead the eye in a continuous motion through the hills and around the geography of the painting. There are almost no jagged lines in the painting to distract the viewer from its smooth architecture. This technique creates a bucolic effect of every object in the world of the painting being interconnected and flowing into each other. Hilltop Farm, Lodi, Wisconsin, in contrast, is made up of mostly jagged, sketchy lines. Even the shapes these lines come together to form are anything but smooth, such as the steeple, tree, and pyramidal