City of Reno’s public art pieces

Kasandra Patterson

Art 160

10/20/10

City of Reno’s public art pieces

            The piece of art that’s in Reno that caught my eye every time I go downtown is the Kinetic Metal Banners made by Dave Boyer and it can be seen in the art district down by wing Field Park  they are on the light posts down in that area. I picked them because every time I am down town I always see them but never really think of them as art. I always just thought they were cool decoration.  I really like them they give downtown something extra, it is very unique and nothing I have ever seen before kind of like Reno. This place is very unique, and I love living here and the fact that our town makes this cool statement, with all of our art pieces all around town I think it tells people that we are very diverse and are open mind maybe or so then other places in the united states.

The Derive` (Drifting in french)

the pics I took during the drift:

Representational and abstract

Kasandra Patterson

Art 160

10-4-10

Representational and abstract

            Representational is defined as works of art that portrays natural objects in a recognizable form. This means that the work is more what the eye would see if you were staring at a natural object or scene. Abstract is defined as the less the work resembles real things in the real world.

So to answer the question on page 39 the work that is more representational is the one done by John Taylor in fig 42 it is a black and white outline of a treaty signing between the native Americas and what looks like English settlers it has a ton of detail and is really easy to see what is going on.

The other art work is defiantly is abstract it to me looks like a child drew it, howling wolf is much more open to interpretation and has a lot more meaning to it than the other one. The other one was very straight forward in its meaning, this one could mean a lot more even though is looks like it was drawn by a child.          

i got these images from: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/mls/syllabi/702/702-1c.cfm
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/mls/syllabi/702/702-1b.cfm