Sculpture Walk

Robert the Bruce by Benjamin Victor

                Power, authority, confidence, and bravery are the words that come to my mind when I first looked at the sculpture. It is a man on a horse that shows all of those traits I listed before.  It has gold accents to the copper base. His facial expressions show determination. I also think of my senior year English lass because we watched Brave Heart and Robert the Bruce is in it.

Katrina by Osamede Obazee

                Windy, scared, shocked and hurt are the expressions that I see when I looked at this sculpture. It is based off Hurricane Katrina. It shows her legs and bones as it ruined people’s lives. It captured the whole wind blowing with her shoe falling off and her umbrella blowing away.  I really liked this sculpture because he had good detail and made you feel like you were there and felt sorry for the people involved.

Survival by Nathan Pierce

                Tall and crooked describe this sculpture. It is colorful with the blue around the piece of tree.  It has shiny texture to it. It is sad because the tree is dying and trying to survive. It is almost looks like a tower with a peek with the tree branch coming out of the top.

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech

1.       The dress of the man standing suggests he is a hard-working laborer from the lower class. His soiled and worn clothing contrasts with the other men in business suits and ties. The other men appear to be professional businessmen who are from the upper class.

2.       The details suggest there is a difference of opinion or some sort of conflict. It seems to me that the men have taken time to study the booklet. The man standing is the only one who looks alone in his views.

3.       I think Norman Rockwell exaggerated the size of everyone’s ears because he wanted to let people know that this meeting is very important. The different sides need to listen to each other to solve the conflict. I think that they are interested in what the speaker has to say because their eyes are on him.

4.       I think that Freedom of Speech is a work of art because art is using your imagination. When you do art you can draw or paint whatever you please to do. The critics might disagree but his paintings have been in calendars, on cups and etc. all over for years. His art has stood the time and is still popular today.