Public Art Homework

I chose this picture because it's a painting of a bear in the forrest, yet it is in the middle of dowtown.  It caught my eye because it is opposite to its surroundings.  This public art piece is titled Bear Tumbling and was painted by Kristin Steedman.  I liked how the bear is the center piece and not the forrest so it really draws your eye to it.  Overall, I liked how simple the bear looked, yet the placement and painting its self was really well thought out.

Drifting

Here are my drift pictures.  While in dowtown, a lot of the public art caught my eye so I took some pictures of it.

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In my opinion, the painting by John Taylor is more representational and the painting by howling wolf is more abstract.  The one by John Taylor looks like real people gathered around to sign a peace treaty while the one by howling wolf looks more like traditional Native American paintings.  Taylor's depiction of the landscape looks real where as Howlings looks abtract.  In Howlings' painting it shows tipis and a river while Taylors' only shows a narrow landscape.  Again, becasue Howling is an Indian and Taylor is not.  In Howlings' painting it shows how the indians all look different.  In Taylors they all look very similar.  In Howlings painting, it shows a lot of women at the peace treaty signing while in Taylors, it shows only men.  I think this is because to the indians, men and women were equal, while in american society at the time, women were seen as having a lower status than men and not taking part in things like politics.