Art in downtown Reno

This is a sculpture by Chris Atcheson called "Gallop-a-Pace". It was created in 2001 and it is located in Bicentennial Park. To me, this sculpture is very neat and when passing by it makes you stop to take a deeper, longer look at it. I really enjoy this art piece and I really like how large it is. I could never imagine myself being able to create something like this at all. I have a lot of respect for artists, especially when it comes to something like this.

Drifting The Biggest Little City In The World

I did my drift starting on the corner of First and Liberty. On my drift I took pictures of "natural" art work covering random things throughout downtown. I also took pictures of flowers, I searched for a group of single colored flowers with one random/different color involved in the group. I found, most of the time, the random colored flower to be yellow. Last, I took a picture of the sunset over downtown. I'm a little dissapointed because I just realized I would have really enjoyed having a picture of the sunset every night over downtown. Sunsets are my favorite! Anyways, here's my pictures..

Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek

John Taylor, Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek:

Howling Wolf: Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek:



When comparing two paintings of the same scenario, John Taylor’s painting, Treaty signing at Medicine Creek Lodge, is a representational art piece because it resembles real things in a real world.  The painting Treaty signing at Medicine Creek Lodge by Howling Wolf is definitely the more abstract of the two paintings because it does not try to resemble the real world. Both pieces are representing the same treaty signing, but they are doing so in a different way. With Taylor’s it is much more organized and realistic, as to Wolf focuses more on color and placement. The landscape is very different in these pieces. With Taylor’s piece the landscape has depth and texture, Wolf’s landscape has no depth and is basically just lines. In Taylor’s art piece, everyone is standing much closer together than in Wolf’s this could suggest culture differences with personal space. Also, Taylor’s piece makes our eyes direct our attention to the center rather than the whole painting like Wolf’s, this could be because Taylor is more concerned about the treaty then the entire village and people in it. In Taylor’s work it is hard to determine the Native American’s role and even if they are male or female. In Wolf’s work it is easy to tell the difference between the sexes and they look to be a bigger part in the whole ordeal. Overall these pieces are about the same situation, but they vary greatly.