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. 

http://radicalart.info/AlgorithmicArt/grid/repetition/62Warhol/s/64BirminghamRaceRiot-s.jpg

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.