After viewing the art at the LCVA in Farmville, I feel that art is something that can be rhetorical.

The Cunninghams from Beale Plaza at Longwood University by Christopher M. Register is a painting I believe is rhetorical especially for Longwood students. The building was a landmark on Longwood’s campus and the painter portrays this in the way he painted the image to sort of be looking in from the outside. When investigating the rhetor who made this image, it allows one to realize just how rhetorical it is because of the background of the building. The Cunninghams was a building that was one of the oldest on campus, and the center of the campus as well. The image was painted by a Longwood University professor in remembrance of the dorm that was to be torn down. It shows the building and  allows the emotion of a sense of remembrance for all students and faculty who knew the building, even in those who didn’t live there.

Howard in 1950 by Howard Finster is one I also believe to be rhetorical as it displays a subject that could be contradictory for viewers. The words on the mans face speak of visions of another world. This goes into social rhetoric and provoking a change in the society and world that we live in. He is using his artwork to tell his audience that things need to change in this world and something must be done. I believe that this is something hugely rhetorical because the artwork is something that is directed at such a specific audience as those who also believe in this change in the world.

In conclusion looking at these two images, my opinion remains the same that art is something that can be hugely rhetorical. The artists choose to paint or use whatever medium to make their art something that portrays a message to their audience. It is about how the audience perceives this images and what they take from them that makes the art something that is rhetorical.