Thy Will be Done by Chester Arnold

When I first walked into the Museum, I want expecting much and I've been there a few times, so I headed directly up to Chester Arnold's exhibit. When I got to the third level, I was pleasantly amazed at what I saw. I actually enjoyed it, usually Art to me is over done to a point where the artists' really don't want to be understood and the more understood you were, the better it is appreciated. But in Chester Arnold's exhibit, There were oil paintings of everyday things that anybody can see on an everyday basis. Such as the turf of grass, the trees, a dumpster site, a river full of garbage. Images that I would never expect to be "artistic" yet he made them look better than real life.
The piece that actually caught my attention was "Thy Will be Done" even before I knew it was the Art Piece we were suppose to breakdown the meaning of. The reason it caught my attention was because of the goriness of the painting. At first glance, even To Candace Nicol, she thought nothing of it, but if you really look at it, there were murders happening, a lady coming out of a bomb shelter, slaves, police men, military men, construction workers, men drinking beers, even perhaps grave digging.
To me, the title for the painting," Thy will be Done" is simple, it took me 3 minutes to figure out what I believe Chester Arnold was trying to depict- No matter how much we rebuild society and cover what has happened in the past and how we try to learn from our mistakes, we will still have poverty, wars, murders, bad cops,  basically havoc. History repeats itself, "Thy Will be Done" no matter what.
I listened in on what other students in the class had to say about the painting and what they thought the title meant, in which I thought they were going too in depth of every little detail of the painting. I looked at the painting as a whole and because of that, I feel a tad bit more artistic. ;)