Monday, October 18, 2010

This is the piece of art that I decided to speak on. It is located at the corner of Virgina and I think it was first street, it is in the front of the  automobile museum. It caught my eye at first glance. They look like a happy family. Now we were suppose to go to downtown Reno and find some kind of public art, so I ask myself what what is more public than a family in front of a car show: on the same strip as one of the biggest car shows in the world...Hot August Nights. That is what I thaught about the fact that it was in front of a museum was a close second. I think that the donor William E. Price thaught highly of family, cars, an art,but whose to say in what order.

Friday, October 8, 2010

My Trip Downtown Drifting




I went on a wet,soggy trip trip to downtown Reno the other day. My classmate, Jacob and I went and noticed something very odd. We noticed that it was really hard to find a parking space, but after we did it was right to the project.
I have lived in Reno for about 5 years but I have never noticed how friendly Downtown Reno claims to be. So for my drifting project I chose all the welcome signs and there are alot.You might think they are inviting you in with open arms but it is all for the money.They guide you right in the casinos, and they try to do it with kindness.WELCOME, WELCOME!!!!!
But one of the most funniest thing was to notice that they really want you to come in and gamble but they have no parking,
(it's all about the money), but thats another story told by another student.

But all in all my trep was a good one even though it was really wet.We went during the same time class would have been going on.

Nevada really does welcome you but you got to have some money, you around to many casino's and they will love to have you stop on in.

So I find out that Reno does welcome you but it is at a cost; maybe high maybe low but a cost none the less.




Monday, October 4, 2010

Homework due;10-5-10

                        I think that the most representational piece between figures 42 and figures 43 is is 42 by a long shot. It just looks more traditional in a since. The Natives are all sitting around looks as if they are listening to that speak. Now the auther says that very rarely we can find the same event made from the sam point of view of two diffrenet cultures....but in my opion John Taylor's images are much more detailed.
                       Now whe you ask the question who's is the most abstract I would have to go with figure 43. Howling Wolf used alot more colors where as Taylor used none.Figure 43 seems more on the chidish side of art which was better for me because I could see what was going on in picture,which I think that is what he was tring to do.
                       Taylor's piece was alot more detailed, but Wolf's caught my eye because of the colors and the figures in the air that really caught my attetntion.Taylo's work seemed more on the traditional side of art but not Howling Wolf's work.
                       Toylor's work has the perseption of going towards the back but Wolf's work has none that I can see. In class you (Candace) taught us about perseptions from the U.S.A. and China so I noticed that Taylor's fit in the U.S.A. format but Wolf's fit no format that we have talked about yet.
                        The two artist show the same thing from dinferrent point of views.Taylor shows from the White Mans perspective but Wolf shows it from the Native aspect, and they are clearly shown in there art.I also think that it shows great diffrence in how the artist depicts there space,It also shows the diffrences in the two seperate cultures aswell.Like Taylor's work makes you look to center of the page where as Wolf's you don't.To me it suggest that Taylor had some type of trainning or that is how Wolf looked at his people.
                        Taylor, in my opion, looked at them kind of the same way.I mean that as he looked at them as a group.A whole, like one.It is ethnocentric because it is accurate. It is like a photograph of the images that he saw.
                        In my closing it was a really big thing that I noticed,Taylor'spicture has no women but Wolf's has women helpping. So I thaught that maybe in Taylor's culter when are not equal but in Wolf's they are helpers.