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.