My Neighborhood Cultural Experience

Running Heading NEIGHBORHOOD assimilation My Neighborhood Cultural ensure Carol Salinas Kaplan University HU300-09 Abstract I earn had a great opport social unity to look at some of my towns most incredible architecture, photographs, murals, and sculptures. Our family has lived here for over six geezerhood now and I halt had the plea sure to visiting our three topical anesthetic Native American Museums. I have always enjoyed going to them on occasion when I feel like just getting kayoed by myself and having some quite time.My experiences in this class have assailable my eyes to a new way of viewing the structures and art nigh me. I have chosen to discuss a building that I drive by on a daily basis, never unfeignedly putting much stock into how it came to be or its significance to our town. I will discuss in detail the structure and the design of the facade. I have also chosen a moment of art that has been in my family since the early 1970s. It is a sentimental mental pi cture that I am sure holds more heartfelt value than monetary worth. I see it all(prenominal) day as I walk in my kinsfolk.It is truly a work of art. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder and most decidedly in the eye of the visionary who created such(prenominal) beauty. My Neighborhood Cultural Experience Architecture During my field trip around my little town, I was dazed at all of the wonderful architecture that I had never taken notice of in the past. It was quite pleasing to see the amount of historical structures that ar here in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Our town was established back in 1901 and holds quite a bit of Native American Indian Influence.This is relevant by the structures around town. I have chosen to discuss a building that was constructed in 1906 and is referred to as the Whitley Miller Building in the Anadarko downtown historical district (United States, 1990) (Exhibit A). The buildings address as listed in the historical cash register is 125-129 W. Broadw ay, Anadarko, Oklahoma. This particular building is quite ornate in its structuring and was built in the Romanesque Revival style (Waymarking, 2011). It is divided up into three separate and different units or bays as they used to be called.The spaces between each unit are pilaster with round arch lintels of buff colour and red colored brick and a sway sill. It is a two-story building that has a stairwell up to the flake floor. The stairwell is decorated with spandrels and pilasters. Two of the units display the names of their original occupants back in the day. The names read Max Goldman & Co. and Whitley Miller, which are inset in stone panels. The second floor has four double hung windows above each unit. These windows are accented by a fanlight transom.There is a wall-like hindrance at the edge of the stone coping and a corbelled brick cornice on the roofline along with recessed panels. Each unit has its own reputation and charm. They are accented with individual awnings, one is red cloth, another is metal, and thus made of wood. Although the architects are unknown to me they take careed to have approached the design of this building as a painter or a sculptor would (Janaro & Altshuler, 2009). It is just horrific that something so old can still be in such magnificent condition. My Neighborhood Cultural Experience trickThe art piece that I have chosen to discuss today is a icon that was painted in manila paper, Philippines in 1962. The signature on this particular painting is not very clear and I cannot distinguish the artists name. I have included a picture of the painting (Exhibit B) as well as a close up of the signature (Exhibit C) in case you agnize it. This painting was a gift from my grandparents. They had gravel friends with many of the locals and befriended the artist. My grandfather saw the painting one day and asked if he could purchase it for his stepson. The artist gracefully agreed.My grandfather and grandmother retired from th e Air Force in 1972 and returned to the states bringing the painting home to my parents. After the passing of my parents, I have inherited the painting. It has become quite a conversation piece in our living room. The fair for this piece is oil on canvas. This is a representational painting of the Manila Bay at dusk. The use of chiaroscuro throughout this painting adds a sultry, more or less lonely feeling to it (Janaro & Altshuler, 2009). You can see a shanty or shack sitting by the water and the boats are in from the geezerhood catch. There appears to be no one in sight.Everyone has gone home from a long and grueling day at sea. The water is quiet and beautifully lit by the falling sun. The sky is an intense yellowish and orange as the rays of the sun are hidden by the clouds. The emplacement of this artist as it relates to his painting is amazing. When I look into the painting, I seem to be pulled into the landscape, as if I am sitting on a hill looking across at the beauti ful sunset. A mind of calm comes over me. I can put myself right there just as a fisherman or his wife efficiency be sitting outside after a good home cooked meal and relaxing after a tiering day on the water.References R. P. Janaro & T. C. Altshuler (2009). The Art of Being Human TheHumanities as a Technique for Living, one-ninth Edition. (pp. 105-130). New York Longman. United States Department of the Interior National Register of diachronic places (1990). Retrieved December 17, 2011 from, http//pdfhost. focus. nps. gov/docs/NRHP/Text/82005385. pdf Waymarking. com (2011). Retrieved December 17, 2011, from http//www. waymarking. com/waymarks/WMCY7W_1906_Whitley_Miller_Building_Anadarko_OK