Winged Snail And The Armadillo example essay topic

Adam Hallowell Art History John Wilde Gallery Paper Well walking through the gallery the only piece that stood out to me was John Wilde's piece 'A Tribute to the Rubber Stamp #7' a silver point on paper. The piece itself has a very simple composition that contains a hand coming into the page from the left side about about a third of the way up the page. The arm has a shirt on with a pinstripe jacket over it. On the right side of the page is a six banded armadillo with a snail with wings.

These animals are placed in the right third of the page. Behind the hand is very light mountain forms that peaks right above the hand and slowly slopes down to pretty much the center of the page and flows fairly flat and parallel with the hand. The mountains are the only thing with a sense of color in the piece, they are washed with a very subtle brown wash. The only other thing that has any sense of color is the armadillos shadow and that's extremely minimal. The armadillo and snail seem to be pretty much proportioned properly except that the armadillos tail is a little to long and the back side of the nail is too big. I think the wings that are on the back of the snail looks exactly like the Detroit Red Wings emblem, minus the color.

Everything seems to be drawn graphic ly except for the mountains that are drawn fairly loose. The palm of the hand has very good detail and it looks fairly realistic even without any shading. The armadillo and snail are drawn very well, there's a good amount of detail like the tiny hairs that come out of the front of the armadillos she right under its face, and the scale of the armadillo are are very good. The mountains split the composition and give the piece a background and a foreground.

The way the mountains go through the page makes the background go back into space and the foreground come forward even though all it is, is wide open white space. another things the mountains do is take your eye from the left side of the page and slowly guides them to the right side, the hand also aids the composition in this almost pointing you towards the right side of the page towards the animals. Part 2 What the pice seems to mean John Wilde piece 'A Tribute to the Rubber Stamp #7's seems to be a very innocent, and kind of comical. Due to the fact that there's a snail with wings sitting on the back of an armadillo, with a mans hand kinda looking like he wants to shake hands with the animals. I kinda think the piece is trying to tell a story how the winged snail and the armadillo, either meet the man, there trying to greet him or something on the lines that. Maybe the snail gave the armadillo a ride to meet his lawyer or something like that.

Although though the it kinda seems like its set in a desert or something. If its a desert setting then why is there a guy with a suit there or at least a big arm, a snail with wings, even if there was a snail with wings it probably wouldn't do to well in a dry climate. The armadillo is understandable due to the fact that it is a desert creature. The piece is very mysterious and leaves a lot of room for your imagination, i honestly don't think there's an exact story line for this piece, but more like the artist had has a small emotion to it or more like a goofy childhood imaginary place.

I really have no idea what it means, it could pretty much mean anything or have some weird underlying theme.