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.

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.

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.

Going to see Chester Arnold

My trip to the Museum of art in Reno was a new but great trip for me. It was something that I never experienced before. I liked it a lot .I especially enjoyed the main artist that we went to see. Chester Arnold . Some of his pieces were a little strange to me but I still had a great time looking at his work.


But before I get into all of that lets get into some history on the man himself. Chester Arnold was born in the USA but was raised in post war Germany in Sonoma California. He was also an art student at Marin in Kentfield California. He went to grad school in the great city of San Francisco and he finished school in1987. Then with little or no break at all he instantly went into teaching at his old collage Marin in Kentfield.

He was inspired by artist like Max Beckman, and he got that inspiration at the early age of 16.Now it is said that his work has a lot to do with politics & social responsibilities. He began painting over 3 decades ago. Chester Arnold was quoted as saying “my paintings are a big conversation I’m having with world”. Now if u ask me he is talking to the world because his outlook on things deal a lot with what’s going on in the world right now and in the past.

The title of his art show was On Earth as It Is in Heaven the title alone could pretty much give you some type of idea of what to expect from his art. But the piece that seems to grab me was this piece called “Turning Earth”. It was a piece that depicts an unnamed man straining to dig a hole in the ground with a shovel. His heroic posture bears resemblance to the two figures in the 19th century French artist Gustave Courbet’s famous painting The Stonebreakers. While one could surmise that the subject in Arnold’s painting is simply partaking in on going course related to the up keep of his home landscaping it also allude to the task of digging a grave for human burial, foreshadowing the mortality theme that recurs in Arnold’s later work.

I took to painting because it reminded me of the good old days when men worked hard on there land or at work. It showed the heart of how our people use to be as whole. It showed a certin type of wok ethic. I took to that piece because it brought back old things that my grandparents tried to instill in me work hard and nothing you try to accomplish won’t happen for you. Now it might not happen over night but just keep on digging and you will get there. That is what I took from the whole Chester Arnold art show.

Now in my closing, my trip with my class was awesome. I learned a lot and I am waiting till the time come and we get to do something like that again. It was really helpful to a person who does not no a lot about that type of stuff….you no ART………..