Unholy Ghost (interior view smurf III)

While looking at the exhibit next to the financial aid office one art work really caught my attention. Unholy Ghost the mixture of color and subject matter really catches your eye, the piece really makes you wonder whats truly happening to the smurf. The mixture of colors that surrounds the smurf keeps your eyes moving hoping to find the true meaning. Which in my opinion is that the smurf that seems so happy and jolly all the time is fighting self feelings and seems to be lost in his own train of thought! Which relates to each and everyone of the viewers of the piece in their own way, so the most amazing part of the work is that it seems to relate to any viewer to view it!

Downtown drifting project

So on my drifting project of downtown reno my partner paul realized how friendly reno is about you gambling your money away and i realized how unfriendly reno is about consumer parking. The casinos in downtown reno will do just about anything to get you to come inside and lose your money! But one thing they seem to not offer you is a good parking spot, my partner and i seemed to have to drive around for about 10 minutes to find a parking spot that suited our needs but even then we had to park 3 or more blocks away from where we needed to be! The part that i noticed is that the parking spot was close to every major casino but not derictly in a paring structure for the casino. All the signs for no parking point in a direction that leads you by all the casinos not just a specific one!

Jasper Johns

Japer Johns is a American contemporary artist who is mostly a printmaker and a painter. Born in Augusta, Georgia but mostly raised in South Carolina. He studied at the University of South Carolina for only three semesters and then moved to New York to study at the Parsons School of design. He is best known for his painting Flag (1954-1955), most of his earlier works used simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters, and numbers. His works try to create its meaning through the use of simple symbols.

"How the West Was Won" by Chester Arnold

On my trip to the” Nevada Museum of Art” to view the Chester Arnold exhibit I truly started to view art in a different way than I ever had before. I really enjoyed looking at the art work and trying to find an understanding on what the artist was trying say to the world through his art work. The true amazement I had while looking at this artist work was how every person looking at the work had a different perception on what the artist was trying to portray to the viewers.
Chester Arnold focus much through his paintings on politics, social responsibility, environmental issues to global impacts of human and industrial consumption, accumulation and waste. When you view this artist works you truly start to feel a understanding of what we need to do to better the world and clear the litter and stop the destruction of the United States of America and the world. Arnold was born in Santa Monica, California but moved to Munich, Germany to receive private education. Then moved back to California to go to college at Marin College and then transferred to San Francisco art institute in 1980.
While viewing the exhibit there was one art piece of Chester Arnolds that really stuck out in my mind. How the west was won in my opinion truly touches gently on all the topics this artist tries to depict through his art work it shows much litter in a canyon with skulls randomly laying throughout the “trash” it also shows a rail road with a train traveling on it. The title shows that the settlers of the west destroyed the west which is viewed as the more “beautiful” coast of America when they began the journey of the gold rush. The gold rush although was the start of the population that is now living in the west, it destroyed many native American cities and hunting land by destroying many mountains sides and many rivers running through the canyons. The “litter” shows that the heavy population of the west in modern day society leaves heavy trash on which in the past was a beautiful part of this country. He is trying to show that modern day Americans that live on the west coast do not live up to the responsibility of keeping the most beautiful parts of the world clean and litter free and to keep it breath taking like before the rush began. The train traveling on train tracks shows that the railroad that crossed all the way across America played a major role of ruining the beauty of the west. When the work began on the rail way there was much destruction to the land to make a path for the tracks to follow. The “skulls” that lay throughout the painting shows the death of many Native Americans that the white men killed to settle in the ideal spot for a city to grow and strive. Murder has never been “acceptable” in America but many forget about the lives are ancestors took to make the major cities that are around today like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, etc. The skulls show that the death will never be forgotten by those who care about the destruction the white man did to the country to make it powerful and successful as it is today.