Fences and Buildings

As I was driving downtown to start drifting for the project I had no idea what I wanted to take pictures of, so while I wandered down w first street for a couple of minutes I noticed all the different types of buildings and fences which had caught my eye immediately! They were all very unique and had a lot of style in so many different ways. There were also a few bridges that I really liked down by the river that were interesting to look at as well, but in the end I had decided that my final project was going to be on all the different fences and buildings for sure!

                                         John Taylor 1867/ Howling Wolf  1875-1878
                                             Treaty Singing at Medicine Creek Lodge

Which, in your opinion, is the more representational? Which is more abstract? 
In my opinion the more representational is John Taylor's version, his is so much more realistic and you can clearly understand the image. The more abstract would definitely be Howling Wolf's version of the peace treaty. It kind of reminds me of a little kids drawing, its more difficult to understand. 

Both works possess the same overt content- that is, the peace treaty singing- but how do they differ in form? Taylor's version and Wolf's version are both completely opposite from each other. Taylor's is more straight forward and gets right to the point and very easy to understand and Wolf's on the other hand gives you more ideas to think about the situation.


How, in comparison, are the Native Americans portrayed in Taylor's work? In what ways is Taylor's work ethnocentric? Taylor's work is very ethnocentric, in his drawings all of the Indians look very similar as well as the trees, bushes etc. Then when looking at Wolf's drawings his are very different and from colors, shapes and sizes.


What does this suggest to you about the role of women in the two societies?
In the Indian culture women are very lovable, and  caring and help out a lot and are highly looked upon for doing such a natural mothering job. In our culture mothers are left up to the normal household matters, such as doing the dishes, cooking, cleaning, etc. and on top of that being a mother.

Romare Bearden
  
I choose Romare Bearden because his painting in the book looked very interesting to me and it was something I would like to research to get some information on.
Romare Bearden was born on September 2nd,1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina and died on March 12th,1988 in New York City. He was one of the most important African American artists. Bearden was also a respected writer, while going to college in New York City he began to Publish many journal covers and most of them were about social and artistic issues. But he was most popular for his textured collages which two of them appeared on the covers of Furtune and Time magazine. Bearden also designed costumes for the set of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Here are some links to some of his paintings and videos!!
http://www.beardenfoundation.org/artlife/beardensart/beardensart.shtml"
 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1428038

 

The Bridge at Dover Beach by Chester Arnold

Meagan Peterson

Art 160

Candace Nicol

September 20th 2010

I'm going to be completely honest I wasn't looking forward to going to the Nevada Museum of Art. I'm not a huge art person, but when I stepped threw the door on the third floor of the Chester Arnold exhibit it caught my attention right away. It was the complete opposite of what I was expecting. A lot of his pieces are very realistic. When I was doing some research on him I came to find out that he intends to do difficult illustrations with a variety of subjects, like for instance our environmental issues, I believe he is trying to get a point across that these things are really happening around us today, things that we do, and things that happen in everyday life to us humans.
While I was strolling around the exhibit looking at all of the works of art there was one piece that stood out and really caught my eye, the piece is called The Bridge at Dover Beach. I choose this one because first of all I thought it was very interesting to look at and I loved how it seemed to be so real. This painting has two ginormous cliffs and in the middle that reaches from each side of the cliffs is some fringe old broken down bridge that looks like it could barley hold a bird and as your looking down there's nothing but a narrow passage of water waiting to squeeze threw and reach the ocean. After sitting there for about 5 minutes really absorbing and visualizing it trying to come up with a conclusion on how to reach the bottom of the two cliffs to find your destination on the beach. I then realized that there was no way down, except to cross the old bridge. Chester Arnold is basically telling us to live life to the fullest because life is to short, you never know when death is going happen its inevitable, so take chances.
I really enjoyed going to the museum. I learned a lot about Chester Arnold and I never would of thought he would have been so interesting, including his paintings. I would definitely go back to the museum for another exhibit and I would for sure recommend it to some friends :)