Signs Signs Everywhere!!

For my Drifting project i looked for signs and arrows that guide us through our lives.
when you really take the time and slow down and look at all the signs and arrows on streets too the lanes all that. You really see how everything flows together and functions together it is interesting to just watch it. Everybody just united as a city FLOWING as a city!!!!.

''Thinking about Visual Conventions''

                 The piece that I think is most representational is John Taylors. Howling Wolfs is more abstract.
Well the Form of Howling Wolf's piece is paper,pencil,crayon, and ink im not really sure what the form of John Taylors piece is. John Taylor's drawing depicts the landscape is detail and depth, unlike Howling Wolf's drawing. John Taylor's drawing has a center point, Wolf's drawing has no depth or center point, so i think Taylor is from the western culture or his work depicts it.
                   Wolf's work, each person is identifiable. They can be seen clear. Taylor's you can see who Native Americans are only by head dress or bow an arrow. Taylor's is very ethnocentric because of it mainly showing the whites or the United States Government. In Wolf's work you see his culture where the women do matter and mean something. Well in John Taylor's you can see the 1800's in the United States culture women were less important and less meaningful. Two differences in the role of women  in two different societies.

The Creation of Adam By Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam

By Michelangelo

            Michelangelo was second of five brothers, he was born March 6, 1475, at Caprese in Tuscany. To Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francessca Neri.Even though he was born in a small village of Caprese, he considered himself a “son of Florence”, as did his father a citizen of  Florence.

Early in his life in Florence his father Ludovico hoped that with his studies, Michelangelo would become a successful merchant or businessman thereby preserving the Buonarroti name.

In 1535, Michelangelo left Florence forever. His choice to leave forever was strongly influenced by the hostility of Duke Alessandro de Medici and the misunderstandings of his fellow people. In Rome, Michelangelo was counting on the affection of Pope Clemont VII.

After a long successful life Michelangelo Buonarroti died on February 18^th, 1564 after a “slow fever”, before he died he said “I give my soul to God, my body to the earth and my material possessions to my nearest relation”. In reality he burned all of his artistic material a short time before his death, So there wasn’t much left.

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BEARS WIN!!!!!!!

BEARS WIN 27-20

I did mine on the Mona Lisa. Do you like it

''Worlds Apart'' by Chester Arnold

‘’Worlds Apart’’
　
　
As I looked at all of Chester Arnolds Art works at The Nevada Museum of Art,
I start to notice that they all have a look of distress in them. Some of them have garbage littered everywhere, people fighting, sewage pouring out, and even a man digging his own grave. The one that attracted me was ’’Worlds Apart’’.
       ‘’Worlds Apart’’ is a cliff top hide away for two. There are two houses sitting opposite of each other, split by a gorge between them with a bustling city with a lot of traffic below. The trash and sewage plays a role in ‘’Worlds Apart” too, just not as distinguishing or noticeable.                             
       On the tops of the cliffs there are houses that have beautiful yards and everything they need. As you look down towards the city you notice in the cliffs there are bones, trash and sewage pouring down towards the city. Then at the bottom you come upon a bustling metropolis with stop and go traffic.
       As I looked close and hard at this work of art, I feel strong feelings of distress still. It shows the earth crumbling beneath the two houses. To me it is saying ‘’there is only so much the earth can take from our suburban lifestyle”. Bill Vaughn once said, ''Suburbia is where developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them''.
      “Worlds Apart” shows exactly what I see in real life today. Our lifestyle will inevitably destroy the earth from the inside out. That’s what I think Chester Arnold is trying to portray in this piece.