A Different View

At the Red Mountain TMCC art exhibit, Leslie Holt reveals to the world a different view of familiar sights in her "Unholy Ghost" series. Relating her art work back to growing up with a mentally ill family member, she brings a unique view point to bed sheets. Her work is done in oil and is very, at first, a bit eerie. Looking at the images of distorted childhood icons, it feels as if the viewer is in a scary dream where everything is different yet still the same. I believe that she was trying to represent how her mentally ill family member might have viewed the world, with familiar images that boggle the mind. From the Cookie Monster to The Smurfs, many childhood images are distorted in her work. Leslie's images of the childhood figures are a view point from under the bed of a child's sheets. All of the work was wonderful and the colors used caught the eye and drew the viewer in. My favorite work was the image of Big Bird. It was so interesting to know what the figure was and recognize it but at the same time be confused and distracted by the work.

Lines and Light!

The first picture was created in ART 160 to show lines using construction paper and tissue paper... ISN'T IT PRETTY :D

The second picture was also created in ART 160 using a special light sensitive paper and objects I placed on the paper... It looks like stuff you'd see in an X-ray of a dogs stomach!

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Vote For SQUIRREL!

The art work that I chose were the poker chips located on S. Virginia Street and E. Commercial Row. The chips are very symbolic of Reno in that gambling is a very large part of our society. They are done in a mosaic fashion and do not look like normal poker chips in that they are very artistic with images of butterflies and such. These chips are realistic in that they have the shape of a poker chip but are abstract in their size and how artistic they appear.

Circles Down Towm

While I was walking down town the thing that caught my eye were round and circular things. From letters to garbage cans I let me camera snap away! I got little circles, big circles, circles, circles, circles! I started at 4th Street (The Silver Legacy parking garage), made my way to S.Virginia Street and walked straight down S. Virginia to Pine Street and then turned around to make my way back down the other side. All in all I probably walked about 45 minutes and discovered that a more comfortable pair of shoes may have been a better option than what I chose. But I had a good time, saw some interesting sights, and some REALLY interesting people.

Different Worlds

Caitlin Carrington

ART 160

October 2, 2010

They Are Different

In their depictions of the Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge, both John Taylor and Howling Wolf recreate the scene in very different ways. While John Taylor created a more representational art work and tried to capture a more realistic quality, Howling Wolf created an abstract art work that captured the basic essence of what was happening. Both artists display groups of people coming together to sign the treaty, but each has a very unique way recreating the treaty signing. John Taylor's work is influenced by Western culture and he does not display any women attending the signing. This type of ethnocentric device, or imposing a certain cultures ideals, is shown through the lack of women in the art; in the 1860's, when this work was created, women were, if at all, seen as second class citizens and would not have been seen as an important part of the treaty signing showing Taylor's decision to leave them out. Also, Taylor's work also draws the viewers attention into the center of the work as an artist would be taught to do in Western Culture. He does not show anything beyond the grove where the signing is happening and all of the Native Americans in his work seem to look very similar with no real identifying marks. In Howling Wolf's work, however, nearly the entire landscape is displayed, showing tipis, the grove, and a creek or brook that flows near by. Each individual tribe is identified with specific colors and markings and there are women in Wolf's work; many women in fact. This shows that Native Americans saw their women as equal and that they had just as much right to be in an art work as a man. Wolf's work also differs from Taylor's work in that Taylor obviously had formal training in how to create art and was bound by those rules displaying much detail. This shows that he sought to create a work that was more appealing to his peers and culture rather than displaying the whole truth. Wolf work on the other hand seems to not have any formal training, is very simplistic, and captured the event as specifically as he could recall it. These two artists came from two very different culture backgrounds and it is very clearly shown through their work.

A Mothers Love

The marble sculpture Pietà by Michelangelo portrays Jesus lying in the lap of his mother, Mary, after the Crucifixion. Jesus is very thin and frail in the arms of his mourning mother. The sculpture is a beautiful work and is full of emotion that shows both a mothers love for her child and the sacrifices people must sometimes make for their loved ones. While Mary does appear to be mourning for the loss of her son, she also seems, to me, to have an expression of pride in that her son sacrificially offered himself to cleanse the sins of the world. Michelangelo seemed to be depicting both their sacrifices, a mother who lost her son and mourns for his death, and a son who lost his life to save the lost souls of the world.

A video showing how Michelangelo created his sculpture with some insight on his life 

Information on the sculpture 

A beautiful image of the sculpture