The Walking Gallery

We invite you to the Walking Gallery's 19th exhibition:

"As Advertised: A Reinvention"

Saturday, June 11, 2011
8-9 p.m.
Pomona Arts Colony
(beginning on the corner of 3rd. & Main St.)

Featuring works by:
Efrain Torres
Megan Flanders
Minh Vo
Dustin Scott
Bob Hurton
Cynthia Garcia
Tung Dinh
Christopher Joseph Phillips
Jad Delima
Naomi Molinar
and many more.

OPEN TO ALL ARTIST

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de`ja`vu

Before there were run ways and supermodels and before there were photo shoots and magazine spreads we had one of the most modern forms of art in what we called nude portraits. This is still even seen today in the most extreme forms of pornography, which as debatable as it may be because it’s considered to be degrading to women is a form of art. Then we have the more modern forms that are depicted in the forms of swimsuit modeling or in runway modeling. Taking all aspects they share a commonality and that is form and function using the human body.

                 Often unnoticed because most are viewing the subject matter than the overall piece of work in its entirety but most if not all modeling begins using a variation of what is known in the art world as the “Classic Venus Pose”. This is known when the subject of the painting has one arm bent over the head and the legs flexed forward. This was seen in the work of art known as the “Blue Nude” by famous nineteenth century artist Henry Matisse.

                Notice the positions that indicate the “Classic Venus Pose”. I also would like to point out something that is very seldomely found in today’s modeling and that is how voluptuous this particular model was. This was something that wasn’t uncommon for many artist and sculptures of the time period and before to have voluptuous women as there subject matter. If you were to turn the page to the 21^st century you would find the complete opposite. There are less and less of what once was to what are now slim petite models. Everything on the market is aimed at dieting and keeping thin or enhancing parts of your body. But what it seems we as society haven’t figured out yet is that no one person is a like and we can’t all have the thin, slim structure nor can we all be heavier in structure or have those enhanced parts of the anatomy that a lot of people seem to lust for. Where the timetable turned I don’t even think we know but we as humans seem to follow what is the here and now.

  

Here you notice the “Classic Venus Pose” and as well as the form and function of what portrait taking and Art in this form has evolved too. Its ironic but not uncommon to see something that was used centuries ago again used today. I just used art and a minute aspect of it in modeling and portraits as an example. Film and music are just a few other forms this can be found in. It’ll be interesting to see if one were to fast forward centuries from now and find the things that we use today or even times ago make their way back to the surface where they once were in their prime. As they say history does repeat itself.

                                                                               

Japanese American National Museum

I visited the Japanese American National Museum in Downtown LA. The most moving exhibit is an actual building from a Japanese internment camp. There are stories of the people who lived in the camps, and those who were there when they brought pieces of the camp to be brought into the museum. The stories are real, they are sad, and inspiring. The history of the Japanese people during World War II is a story most are unaware of. The museum also has an exhibit that features Japanese tapestries. After you have seen the museum make sure to stop by the famous Chado Tea House located on the grounds of the museum!

Arts graduates find jobs, satisfaction

Conventional wisdom has long held that pursuing a career in the arts is a likely ticket to a life of perennial unhappiness, hunger and unemployment. But the opposite appears to be true -- graduates of arts programs are likely to find jobs and satisfaction, even if they won't necessarily get wealthy in the process -- according to a new national survey of more than 13,000 alumni of 154 different arts programs.

Ten Damaged Artworks

Ten Famous Works of Art that Are Forever Damaged by Carelessness, Negligence, Anger or Pure Insanity. http://www.artdaily.org/

1. Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
2. Night Watch (1642), Rembrandt van Rijn
3. Danae (1636), Rembrandt van Rijn
4. Rokeby Venus (1647-51), Diego Velazquez
5. The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (1499-1500), Leonardo da Vinci
6. Portland Vase (30-20 BC), Maker Unknown
7. The Little Mermaid (1913), Edvard Eriksen
8. Pieta (1498-99), Michelangelo
9. The Actor (1904), Pablo Picasso
10. Le Reve (1932), Pablo Picasso

ARTicles, Issue 7

ARTicles, Issue 7, is now available. Find your copy at the Center for the Arts and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art or view it online at http://www.chaffeyarticles.com/ (links for all issues are at upper-right corner of page).

Issue 7 includes a review by Dulce Soledad Ibarra of the Student Invitational 2011 exhibition currently at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art; an article on this year's Family day at the Wig! by Priscila Garcia; and a reflection by Sheila Taylor on the importance of dance in our lives and the recent Dance Department production, Physical Graffiti.

ARTicles is a student-driven publication of the Chaffey College Center for the Arts. It is published twice each semester by a consortium of students with a passion for arts, entertainment and culture. The content reflects a diverse sample of the cultural life at the college. ARTicles is generously supported by the Chaffey College Marketing Department.