School Art

Out of all the art pieces this one in particular caught my eye. From Below III is a beautiful art painting. Its nice how the painter painted the art work as if he was  down beneath the boat; under the water. The waves around the boat indicate that the boat is still moving. How the boat casts its shadow and how the water around it is so dark, you can tell its nightfall and probably a full moon too since where the boat is at the light is so bright and round. To me it looks more like a boat in the lake. The water seem nice, cool, and fresh. It just makes me want to take a swim up in Tahoe! To bad it is too cold right now.

Public Art

I went through downtown searching for public art. I came up with many of them but just one caught my eye. It is on Virginia St. next to the "The Biggest Little City In The World" sign. If you actually look the art from the side it looks like they are poker chips, like the ones that they give you in the casino card tables in exchange of money, but if you look at each one from the top they have different designs. The orange ones have a pair of butterflies on top, the one with red has fish on them, and the one that is just blue and sky blue has a big dove-with its wings spread- on top. I just think that this piece of art goes just right in downtown since they look like poker chips and most of downtown are casinos.

Drifting Picture Project

It was pretty hard to chose what to take pictures of for my drift. While I was walking around downtown I noticed that most of the buildings have so many windows. So I decided to take pictures of some buildings that have quite a few windows but I didn't want to take pictures of casino buildings instead I took pictures of fancier looking buildings. My favorite one is the first picture and the last picture. The roof on the last picture reminds me of the Veterans Memorial .

Answers To Page. 39

In my opinion I think that John Taylor's drawing is more representational which to Howling Wolf's drawing is the one with more abstract. John Taylor's drawing is more focused on the actual event of the day of the Treaty it is more real and Howling Wolf's drawing focuses more on where the Treaty took place like someones image of the place. Both drawings what so ever still represent the same cultural and the treaty. In Taylor's drawing you know that the Native Americans are all one and that they are all involved with whatever happens in their tribe and you know that by seeing how all of them are all gathered together in the Treaty Signing. In Howling's you also know that the women's role take part in such a big event not like in Taylor's, that women are not involved in big events like this one.

4th Role

So I was looking to through my text book in search of a painting that actually once you saw it, you can tell it had a meaning behind it. Which I believe relates to the 4th role- artists give form to the immaterial. I found the painting "Race Riot" by Andy Warhol on page 8 and stuck out the most to me. 

The painting was events of May 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, when police commissioner Bull Connor employed attack dogs and fire hoses to disperse civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. You can tell that this was not right and it should of never happened. Anyone should have their own rights. After all we are all one. The art work also has the colors red, white, and blue which I believe represents the flag and peace. This painting has a lot of meaning behind it. 

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928 and died on February 22, 1987 at the age 58. He now is famous worldwide for his work of painting. "Eight Elvises" a 1963 painting was one of his highest price paid for which was $100 million. 

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Nevada Museum of Art

"REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY"

  I went to the Nevada Museum of Art and went up to Chester Arnold section which was on the third floor. It was my first time going to a museum and i expected very little like small art portraits, but I was wrong and came up to much more!  

All of Chester Arnold's work was very nice and big in size. I really enjoyed his work. Even though all the portraits were nice I had a hard time deciding which art piece to work on, since all of Chester's work is basically based on the environment. Then there was one that caught my eye. To me it seemed different and not really based on nature or like the environment. 

 It was "Reports To The Contrary". This one was amazing. It seemed like Autumn in New York Central Park. There was a lot of tall buildings surrounding the park, including the famous hotel "The Plaza" I think. It was a dark grayish cloudy windy day making it seem cold. The red-orange leaves of the trees in the park were all over the air making the trees bare naked without the leaves. Also the wind was so much that it took someones hat and papers making them fly in the mid air with the red-orange leaves. 

The painting was painted in 2008 and it was sold to Global Financial Services Giant Lehman Brothers for its corporate art collection. Not long after they declared bankruptcy and it was one of the largest bankruptcy filing in the U.S.A. -I got this info from the note of the painting.