Fiesta Tower Analysis

I think this torch was the most unique creature in the library. From the first glance, it caught my eyes right away when I first stepped on the second floor. My first impression on the Fiesta Tower was very colorful and amazing. When, at first, I didn’t not know that it was the Chilhuly’s Fiesta Torch, I thought it looked like blowing fireworks and lighted up the whole space by showing bright colors and extraordinary shape. Then, I read the information board and realized the name of this artificial structure was the Fiesta Tower. The name of it matched perfectly to the impression of the structure. It made out of glass materials that reflected light to make it twinkle and shine, which helped it to express a bright energy of fiesta, just like

its own name. Its various kinds of colors fit very nice to the surroundings. I guessed the reason why this vivid structure didn’t seem odd in the picture was because of the yellow walls of the library. The collaboration of the yellow walls and colorful structure harmonized with each other and these bright colors helped the library to have positive energy around it. This library was not just about books. It combined with art.

2. Alameda Museum, Market Square

It was the place where the Mexican culture was very concentrated, when I first stepped in there.

I felt that the market square represented that the culture of San Antonio was a mixture of Mexican and Texan culture. It showed how Mexican culture was falling into Texas. I saw a bunch of restaurants and stores that expressed the culture of Mexican, which was impressive how one culture seemed to be concentrated in one small place. It was very crowded and disordered. There were lots of people visiting the square. It was very fun and interesting place to go look around. The colorful flags hanging in the air matched with an atmosphere of the market square and added to play a part in a state of chaos. It was cool to walk around and see what Mexican culture was about. Alameda Museum had changed its name to the Centro De Artes and was holding an exhibition of Roberto Gonzalez. I liked how this museum categorized the walls by colors so that it was easy to classify the themes of paintings. The paintings were very cool. In my perspective, the colors of the paintings were pretty dark and had a low chroma. But I felt that the mood of the paintings was very glamorous and bright, which was strange and

amazing.

3. Guardian Angel and Boy Tile Art

The first impression of this tile art was very beautiful and sweet.

The colors of painting looked very cozy and warm and it matched with the next wall with colorful decorations. It covered one whole side of the hospital, which looked very cool. This giant painting easily caught my eyes from a far distance. And I thought the intention of this painting was that there was always hope for young children like the little boy in the art, since it’s a children’s hospital. This could inspire us that every child in this hospital was protected and cared, as the angel was looking after the boy in the painting. Just like the boy was taking care by an angel, it let the children visiting hospital think they were very precious and didn’t let them lose any hope. The part that the angel was caring for the boy and the boy was holding and caring a bird in his hand made me think every creature was valuable and feel very warm. That was why this art was picked to be on the side of the hospital that had a good view for everyone even from a distance. It was significant that this painting was very inspiring and encouraging to give a

hope.

4. La Villita

Just like its name, La Villita was a cute and very tiny village. I felt that I was stepping into a small toy neighborhood which was filled with tiny houses from a fairy tale story. This village seemed very familiar to me. It looked like a small town of a theme park that I might have been to when I was a kid. I felt like there must be dwarves living in those small houses and a tiny fairy with wings might come out from nowhere and ask me some questions. It was because tall buildings didn’t exist inside the village. However, right next to it, there were tall hotels along the boundary of the village. When I was in the middle of the building and felt like I got smaller along with the whole town, as Alice in the Wonderland took a pill that made her smaller. From the first glance, this town looked little bit odd, when I saw it from a distance. While the surrounding had been transformed into an urban city, the appearance of this village was still very historic and it seemed that most of things were preserved well. I assumed the reason why these two opposite places were in harmony was that the function of the village had been changed by time. It turned into a tourist spot with a bunch of restaurants and stores. I was little bit sad that this village had to transform to get into modern society. On the other hand, it was a good thing that this town got along with environment around it and still kept its own shape.

5. Torch of Friendship

This sculpture was a very cool modern art. Because it was a big structure with a bright color, which made it to be easy to catch an eye at a distance, and located in the middle of the road and close to the river center mall, I used this structure to see where I was and where to go. It had a very unique and cool twisted shape. It looked like two branches from the bottom meeting on the top and making a twisty and round form, it looked very modern and artistic. This sculpture looked very great by itself and also matched with the surrounding area. It located in the middle of a roundabout without a traffic light so that it looked nice when cars were spinning along the sculpture which had a three dimensional circle shape on the top. Also, it was very colorful and vivid. Its color was very bright reddish orange, which was the reason why it was exposed to view easily. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bright color of sculpture, it looked very cool.