ARTicles, Issue 10

ARTicles, Issue 10, 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).

In this issue:

Breaking Bread at the Wignall Museum by Sheila Taylor

Heading Out: David Alekhuogie by Minh Vo

The “Dirt” about Cynde Miller by Timothy Haerens

Pacific Standard Time Shines on Southern California by Katelyn Cochran

Project ARTstART Brings Art to Claremont School System by Katelyn Cochran

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.

Art Event This Thursday

First Thursdays: Laguna Art Walk

March 1, 2012

Join member galleries for Laguna Beach's monthly First Thursdays Art Walk for artist demonstrations, exhibition openings, music, dance, appetizers, and more! Now in its 14th year!

Art Walk maps are available online and at all participating galleries.

Info Phone: (949) 683-6871

 Admission in free! 

-Manuel Ortega

Possible Earliest Human Paintings Found

Cave paintings have been discovered to be 42,000 years old and are located in the Cave of Nerja, in Malaga, Spain. If the dating is accurate, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. The article mentions that these were created by Homo Neanderthalensis not Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

According to Sanchidrían, all the available scientific data shows that these pictures could only have been made by Homo Neanderthalensis instead of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, something completely unthinkable until this finding. "The charcoals were next to the seals, which doesn't have any parallelism in paleolithic art" said the professor, "and we knew that neanderthals ate seals." And there is no proof of homo sapiens in this part of the Iberian Peninsula. 

Source: Gizmodo, Cueva de Nerja

Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in the Prado

Curators have spent the better part of a year removing black paint from another Mona Lisa painting, thinking for years it was just a copy of the original. Turns out, it dates back to the original and was painted alongside Leonardo's possibly by an apprentice.

Using infrared reflectography also revealed the copy’s underdrawings, sketches that painters make before they start with the paint. The Louvre took IR images of the Mona Lisa in 2004. When the Prado curators compared the two sets of underdrawings, they found that they matched, suggesting that the copy was made contemporaneously with the original, following the changes to the composition as the master drew them before the final version was painted. There are documentary sources that attest to Leonardo having his students paint alongside him in the studio, but this is the first time we have IR evidence that strongly indicates contemporaneous painting.

Read article on The History Blog.

Eat My Heart Out

Eat My Heart Out: The Monstrous Side of Love, Opening Reception Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:30-8:00pm in the Center for the Arts Student Gallery (CAA Lobby)

Review: PermaDirty

Inland Empire Weekly review of the new Claremont Packing House artspace, PermaDirty, owned and curated by Chaffey College art professor Cynde Miller.

Kicking off its inaugural group show, “This is the Dirt,” on Friday, PermaDirty offers an eclectic exhibition of work from IE residents that include installation, video performance, sculpture, painting, ceramics and illustration. Seeking to make the art process more open and inclusive of spectators, Miller decided that PermaDirty would be both a gallery and studio space, open to members of the public who wish to view art in action. Drawing from her experiences as an artist and art professor at Chaffey College, she was also determined to make that space accessible and free of commercial art-world pressures—a living, breathing creative arena in which artists and performers may display their work without the need to jump through endless red tape hoops.

Read the complete review here.