WP3 prewrite 2

This sculpture is entitled pieta, and is by Bruno Lucchesi finished in 1970. The sculpture stands at its highest point about five feet high. It is around six feet long and three feet wide. With the exception of its concrete base, pieta appears to be completly molded out of some sort of metal. Its texture is relatively smooth and holds sort of an extreemly faded dark green color. It is located to the side of the art gallary and is surrounded on three sides by shrubs about six feet tall. The subject matter of the sculpture itself includes what appears to be an old, sickly looking man, possibly dead, lying in a bed with a woman draped over his legs, face down, possibly crying, with her hand up sort of reaching towards him. Based on what I saw, I would say that the pieta sculpture is telling a narative of someone loosing a loved one. If I had to make an assumption based on the detail, I would guess this was a father and daughter, due to the wrinkles on the sitting individual, and the long hair of the person laying over him. What leads me to believe they are related is the closeness this girl must feel that she is laying over this person. What leads me to believe that he might be dead is that he appears to be unresponsive to the girl on his legs. I get the feeling that the daughter is crying based on the fact that her face is down while her hand is reaching up, like she cant deal with the grief from her loss. Rhetoricly, I feel Lucchesi is trying to convey some sort of message about either grief or loss. I would say something to the effect of, "All things come to an end," or "We will eventually lose even those who we are closest to." Due to the way in which the girl seems uncontrolably upset, we might even assume that she wasnt prepared for this to happen and that she wishes she had more time with him. The rhetorical message could then be something like. "spend time with your familly while you can." There had to be some motivation for Lucchesi to want to convey this message, so I would assume this sculpture relates to a personal experience. For rhetorical strategies, I think that vectors of attention, location, body positions and texture play key roles in conveying the argument.