Ecstasy: In and About Altered States

An international survey of work by approximately 30 artists exploring altered states and alternative modes of perception, Ecstasy features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography, and new media by some of today's leading artists as well as the most promising work by the up-and-coming generation. Ecstasy presents recent and specially commissioned works that challenge notions of interactivity while generating a heightened aural and visual experience for the individual. Featured artists include Franz Ackermann, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Francis Alÿs, Chiho Aoshima, assume vivid astro focus, Massimo Bartolini, Tatsurou Bashi, Glenn Brown, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Olafur Eliasson, Lara Favaretto, Sylvie Fleury, Tom Friedman, Rodney Graham, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Ann Veronica Janssens, Ann Lislegaard, Matt Mullican, Takashi Murakami, Paul Noble, Roxy Paine, Charles Ray, Erwin Redl, Pipilotti Rist, Paul Sietsema, Fred Tomaselli, and Klaus Weber. The exhibition is organized by Chief Curator Paul Schimmel with Gloria Sutton and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Through February 20, 2006
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N. Central Ave., L.A.
213-626-6222

Schimmel in Carsten Höller’s
Upside-Down Mushroom Room
in the Geffen Contemporary.
(Photo by Kevin Scanlon)

Shades 'O' Jade

In studying over the last few weeks of my Art of the Ancient Americas class, I have found that Jade is not only a bright green but that it can vary from whitish green to deep green. This I gathered on my trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to see the Mayan Kingship art exhibit. There were many shades of Jade there and I am wondering, what is your favorite shade of Jade? Feel free to list your own favorite encounters with Jade and your favorite colors or color-contrasts of it.

CAHA

The next meeting of the

Chaffey Art History Association

Friday, December 2
2:00 @ Student Activities office
in Campus Center East (CCE)

Maya City Excavated

In the LA Times of Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005 there is an article with new discoveries. A city in Guatemala named Cancuen was excavated finding bones and other stuff indicating a "massacre that was key to the civilization's fall".

New York Architecture

This past Thursday in Art History we really got into New Yorks Architecture so i thought it would be a good time to post a few of the pictures of the buildings that i took on my summer trip to NY.Hope you enjoy them The first pic is the Natural History museum with a President Roosevelt statue in the middle there. Second one is the Chrysler building taken from the Empire State building, Third picture is St.Patricks Church, and the last pic is another shot from the Empire State building.

Giant Olmec Stone Heads

Remember the unforgetable giant Olmec stone heads we studied towards the beginning of this semester. Well, my son and I were using his PlayStation. We were playing a game called ATV Offroad Fury 2. While offroading, we were surprised when we came across what looks similar to the heads. As we continued riding, we even discovered some more heads. Prior to our class, I wouldn't have recognized the heads being used by one of the most popular games out in the industry.

Art History in Society

In Art 5 on Tuesday we were lectured on about Frank Lloyd Wright, and I found it immensely interesting. After Tuesday’s lecture I went home and gathered with some friends and played the game "Taboo." The object of the game is to pick a card, and try to have your teammate guess the title of the card without saying certain words listed on the card you picked. I found it humors that twice the team playing against me pulled cards dealing with art, one card was "Frank Lloyd Wright" and you couldn’t say works like "Architect" to describe him, needless to say I was the only on who knew who he was. It was amusing that we had the whole Frank Lloyd Wright lecture then I go home to find his name as a question in a game. An added bonus of art history, you’ll be able to answer those random art questions in Taboo that have your friends puzzled.

CAHA

FIRST MEETING
of the
Chaffey Art History Association

Friday, November 18
2:00 @ Chaffey cafeteria

At this first meeting we will be selecting officers and discussing plans for the future. Bring your great ideas and get involved!

• Create a supportive network of students and professors.
• Organize trips to museums and galleries.
• Publish articles and art exhibition reviews.
• Invite guest speakers.
• Learn about transferring and even graduate school.
• Movie night!

Student Art Show

Student Art Show @ Wignall Museum

DECEMBER 2 - 8, 2005

Reception:
Monday, December 5, 12:30-1:30 PM

Speaking of Picasso...

Picasso's work has definitely changed the face of art and his paintings have had an impact on many people. His painting, Guernica, is a powerful cry for the people, showing the destruction of war. As soon as we discussed this in class, I remembered that my sister Julie, along with three of her classmates had to recreate this painting for her color theory class at the Art Institute of California, Orange County. Their painting is not as big as the original, but it still is a pretty good size: 42" x 21". We may not have seen Guernica in real life, but here's a miniature version that could possibly come close...

Norton Simon Museum of Art

The Norton Simon Museum of Art is known for its remarkable collections. Seven centuries of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century are on view, including works by such famous artists as Raphael, Botticelli, Rubens, Rembrandt, Zurbarán, Watteau, Fragonard and Goya. The Museum boasts a particularly celebrated Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection with paintings by Manet, Renoir, Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cézanne. In addition, there are 20th century works by Picasso, Matisse and the German Expressionists. Complementing the Western art is an outstanding collection of Asian sculpture from India and Southeast Asia spanning a period of 2000 years.

We will be visiting the Norton Simon Museum on Saturday, November 19 at 1:00. More information in Events.

Here are a few examples from the museum's collections.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, c. 1636-38



Francisco de Goya, Portrait of Dona Francisca Vicenta Chollet Y Caballero, 1806



Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-81



Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Woman and Boy, 1899



Claude-Oscar Monet, Artist's Garden at Vetheuil, 1881



Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-95



Pablo Picasso, Woman with a Guitar, 1913



Marcel Duchamp, Bottle Rack, 1963 (replica of 1914 original)



Bruce Conner, Couch, 1963



Wallace Berman, Untitled, 1967



Craig Kauffman, Untitled, 1968



Frank Stella, Damascus Gate I, 1969

The Broken Column

I would have to say my favorite female artist of all time would have to be, Frida Kahlo. Here artwork is so original and symbolic of her life. I believe she used her paintings as an outlet to express her pain as well as triumph in life. The painting shown, The Broken Column, done in 1944, may be the one of Frida's paintings that show the pain she was feeling the most. The Column itself, which is broken, shows one of the sources of her pain, the nails in her body show in a physical way the pain she was enduring, and the tears in Frida's eyes show that her pain was excruciating. From an early age Frida Kahlo suffered much pain in her life from a bus accident which nearly killed her. Frida's face shows courage, and resignation. But in spite of all her pain, Frida kept on expressing herself by making outstanding paintings.

Woman in a Loge

There are many different styles of painting; from abstract, genre, classical, and many others. Out of all the styles of painting there is one form of art that stands out as brilliant. I see the Impressionists artists as painting outside the " normal" standard of art. One Impressionist painting that I enjoy very much is the painting by Mary Cassatt, Woman in Loge. I believe Cassatt captured the essence of a woman having fun within her own realm of domestic and social life, in which she appeared to be well-off. I also enjoy that with the Impressionist paintings the brushwork is very bold and large, I believe these techniques help to show bright and luminous color, and a multi-stylistic brushwork.

"One Getty. Two Locations."

"Your Ticket To The Ancient World"

The Getty Villa Opens Anew February 2006 There's no time like the present to dicover the past.

Reserve your tickets to the Getty Villa in Malibu --
an extrodinary place devoted to ancient Greek,
Roman and Etruscan art and cultures.

To ensure an intimate viewing experience daily capacity is limited -- you'll agree, though, it's worth the wait.


For a free ticket, visit www.getty.edu
or call 310-440-7300

Tickets for February through July 2006
will be available beginning November 3, 2005.

From the Entertainemnt section in todays local paper.

My impressions on Impressionism

Don't impressionist paintings look a bit messy? They are merely composed of short brush strokes and dabs of painting yet they create an entirely beautiful picture. I am intrigued by this. I was taking a close look at Monet's Boulevard des Capucines, Paris and realized that I could make out an entire scenery from these dabbles. If you look at the portrait, you are looking at a street with people, carriages, trees, and buildings. But look at it close up and the people have no faces and there are no definite edges to the other objects. It's amazing what a few brush strokes can create!

A.R.T. As An Acronym II: The Play of the Light, Plein Air Style

Autonomous Resonance Theory or A.R.T., is the idea that any message of communicaton or expression that is created, that can be interpreted, understood, mimicked, or responded to; can be understood and reasoned with, as art. This can include many genres of Art, mathematics, languages, code, etc. Plein Air is French for "In the open air." Plein Air style is a style of art that is made, that was first used largely to depict natural landscapes, at its inception by artists of Eurpoe. There was also a California school of Plein Air artists, and there are some today. It is typically made out of the studio. However, there are artists that today make photographs and then paint inside a studio. With the planet and stars as its outdoor studio, our sun, depending on the day, in all its hours of daily change during its lifespan, is always affecting the colors of nature before us. Be it the colors of the leaves in the trees, the shadows on the ground, or the shades of any given color, we all see such change differently...artfully. The sun can affect the gleam of snow fallen lately in winter on a mountain range, or in late-spring; the faces we can see in the bare rocks. Downstream from the melted snow at the beach, we can see the reflections of the snow on the sands of the ocean. There is also the mystical (and as yet, personally unseen) 'green flash' through the oceans waters at sunset, and at night the sun shines brightly on the local planets, as days come and go. Lest we not forget the 'ring of fire' of a total solar eclipse, I have mentioned it here, and I refuse to forget rainbows! In what ways throughout your life, has the "play of the light" of our sun interested you, as you have experienced it? List you favorites and tell of your experiences of the sun's A.R.T., in your universe.