"The Cock Crowed Three Times"

On December 2^nd, I went to three different art galleries in Spokane. I went to the Saranac Art Project, the Richmond Art Collective, and the Marmot gallery. At the Marmot gallery I looked at different oil paintings from Whitworth’s drawing and painting teacher, Gordon Wilson. He had about ten oil paintings in different sizes with different themes. There was a small series of paintings that he did in Italy that I found very interesting and beautiful. The painting that I was most interested in is called “The Cock Crowed Three Times” which was done with oil on linen. This painting had a lot of detail with many different colors and clear brush strokes. The color scheme in the composition was mainly cool colors with some warm colors to contrast for emphasis. One theme for this painting would be the repetition of mammals because there is a rooster, donkey, parrot, and a human in the composition, possibly comparing all of these different creatures and how they interact with each other. This gallery involved the community a lot because some of the artists were locals from Spokane like Gordon Wilson and some were from out of state to create more diversity within our community arts. There are a lot of similarities and differences with Gordon’s work and other artists’ work. I think every talented artist has a lot of detail and depth in their paintings but I think Gordon’s details are really emphasized by the paint brush strokes and the amount of different colors and values in areas of the compositions. I personally felt very connected to this event and these pieces of artwork because Gordon is my painting teacher and over the semester he has taught me different things and techniques that I can see in his own work. Can we have an art event where we see all different kinds of work from all of Whitworth’s art teachers?