Aerosol Artist Caleb Aero

 I headed downtown to find my public art piece because i knew it would be pretty easy to find a piece there but on my way there I hit a detour that took me a different way and as I went down Holcomb this mural grabbed my attention so i pulled over to take a quick picture of it. it was done by Caleb Aero go check out his website here, i also added a video of him in reno painting other pieces.

The 775

when i got dowtown i wasnt sure what i wanted to take pictures of, then finally i decided i wanted to take pictures of things that said Reno. it wasnt as easy as i thought looking for things that said Reno it was actually very difficult, but i liked taking pictures and looking for something that wasnt easy to find.

The Dead Christ

I chose a piece called “The Dead Christ” by Andrea Mantegna. This piece shows Christ on a bed dead. It relates to role 4 because he’s giving form to a spiritual force. Most of Mantegna’s paintings had to do with spiritual forces. Looking further into “The Dead Christ” we see an almost monstrous spectacle: a heavy corpse, seemingly swollen by the exaggerated foreshortening. At the front are two enormous feet with holes in them; on the left, some tear-stained, staring masks. But another look dissipates the initial shock, and a rational system can be discerned under the subdued light. The face of Christ, like the other faces, is seamed by wrinkles, which harmonize with the watery satin of the pinkish pillow, the pale granulations of the marble slab and the veined onyx of the ointment jar. The damp folds of the shroud emphasize the folds in the tight skin, which is like torn parchment around the dry wounds. All these lines are echoed in the wild waves of the hair.

(Marx,Daniel. Web Gallery of Art, 9/27/10, http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/mantegna/2/dead_chr.html)

Chester Arnold's "digger"

I chose the piece “Digger” by Chester Arnold. This piece has a man sitting in a grave with tree stumps surrounding him. The grave that the man is sitting in was dug by himself for himself; he dug it because he feels that he has done the wrong thing by helping with cutting down the trees. I believe the man dug the grave for himself because he feels if the trees don’t deserve to live and he had some fault in them being cut down he doesn’t deserve to live.

                I believe that Chester Arnold’s intent for this piece is even if you’re one of the people cutting down the trees you still have a heart and still feel bad for these trees being cut down, or just a person that pretends not to care about the trees, deep down inside that person has to feel bad or sad about the trees. As Chester Arnold once said about forests “and whenever one is felled I feel a pang of remorse. Something wonderful – environmentally and spiritually – has been taken away.” As you can probably tell by his statement Chester Arnold loves the environment and feels that cutting down forests to build more buildings and more cities is very wrong and he doesn’t approve of it.

                I chose this piece because the man sitting in the grave really caught my attention. I was thinking to myself why would this man be sitting in a grave surrounded by tree stumps, after I read the description of the piece and found out why the man was sitting in the grave made me even more interested in the piece. It made me want to stand there and just look at and think about the piece even more. As I stood there thinking about the piece it hit me that Chester Arnold is right about all the forests being cut down (that its wrong). That’s why I chose this piece by Chester Arnold.