Public Art in Reno

You do not notice it if you are just walking in the downtown Reno. I love to see the clear sky, so I was walking in the downtown and looking the sky. Then I found the small art district banner. I do not know how I can describe it, but it has two parts. One part looks like a metal banner which has many squares, and the other part has an artistic pinwheel. The pinwheel spins like a living thing because it usually stops like it never moves, but when the wind blows, it starts to spin cheerfully. While I was watching the public art, I was beginning to wonder if the artist came up the spinning idea with his or her memory of childhood. This is because I used to have a pinwheel as one of my favorite toys when I was little, and the art work reminded me of my childhood memory.            

While I was drifting in downtown Reno, I found some artistic things. It might not be the art for the people who created those buildings or signs, but they caught my attention. I took the buildings and churches which seem to have history, and I took some monuments which are creative and have fun shapes. I felt that the downtown might want us to see not only casino but also art in there because each light was decorated with artistic objects, and even the map of the park looked art to me. I was glad to find those art in the place, and art might be hidden anywhere. 

By Different Artists in Different Ways

Two different artists, John Taylor and Howling Wolf  drew Treaty Singing at Medicine Creek Lodge in different ways, and I found that there was different ideas about the role of women in different culture. Taylor's work of art is more representational, and the work of Wolf is more abstract. In Taylor's work, he describes the treaty event with details without using any color, and the characters are realistic; it looks like the treaty is really happening now in the art. In contrast, Wolf does not describe the situation with a lot of details because he focuses on Native Amricans' clothes and symbols. So we can identify each of them by his or her colorful clothes and symbols. Taylor's work is ethnocentric because in his work, it seems like men are in charge of the process of the treaty, and women are sitting behind the event. Women also does not wear unique clothes like the women in Wolf's work. From that, we can see that women did not have the important roles in the culture, and men make important decisions. On the other hand, in Wolf's version of the event, women looks like active, independent, and equal to men. They are also centered to the event to make decision, and their unique clothes may show us that they have important roles in their culture. It is interesting that different artists described the same event in different ways, and we can see that there were different values about women in different culture.