Cultural Event #3

This week for my cultural event I went to the freedom festival art gallery at the covey center on center street in provo. They had just had a competition they had all the pictures or statues on display in a medium sized room with blue ribbon hanging on the art piece that had won. As I first walked in the room I saw a painting on the wall of a carnival. I felt that the subject being represented was "good times", having fun and anything related to that. It was an oil painting that left very thick brush strokes on the surface in a way that stood out to me. The painting had beautiful colors, if you can imagine a dark blue sky lit up with the lights from all the different rides including a merry go round and all the other excitement going on at the carnival. I think it would be considered mantic because of all the emotion that is involved. After examining that painting I moved ahead and saw another that I really liked. It was a leather framed picture. The whole picture was made out of leather and it had a normal brown leather backround with the american flag waving and a bald eagle perched on a tree branch right in front of it. It was very patriotic and it was so cool to see how they had created the picture out of leather. Another really good painting that was displayed was one of Christ. This piece actually won 1st place in the competition and had a blue ribbon hanging on it. In the very middle of the frame you see christ standing with his arms extended out. It looked just like the statue of christ in salt lake at the visiting center except this one was with color. Around Christ was a very bright light and from what I understood it was the second coming of christ. I didn't quite get that at first but after looking at the picture longer I noticed that on the right side of christ there brighter colors of blue and purple and others. On the left hand side of christ the colors seemed to be a little darker, like a darker greenish yellow. I thought it was cool to have learned more about what colors mean and then being able to understand that painting better. It was another great experience.