New Van Gogh Painting Found

After nine years of research, scientists used a technique called Macro Scanning X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry and discovered that this painting is a Van Gogh. The painting, Still life with roses and field flowers has a very interesting story, because Van Gogh actually painted over one of his previous paintings to create it. 

And it is quite an unusual Van Gogh. First, the size is weird, too large for the Dutch author: 39.3 x 31.4 inches (100 x 80 centimeters). His flowers were never as big during his Parisian period, when this painting was created. Also, experts thought the piece was too exuberant for the post-impressionist master.

Make sure to read the full story here: Gizmodo

21st Annual Art Show in Riverside

Immanuel Lutheran School hosts its 21st Annual Art Show. Each Immanuel Lutheran child will receive an award for participation and honorable mention. Community Artists will be judging the student's artwork. Special awards will be given for "Hall of Fame" for K-3rd grade. Special Mayoral Awards for 4th-6th grade. "Larger Than Life" entries are a must see from our 6th grade students. See you there!



Manuel Ortega

Chaffey College Student Photo Show

art21 New Episode

New episode of Art 21, Boundaries, aired on PBS last night.

Watch Boundaries on PBS. See more from ART:21.

Who and what limits our freedom of expression? In what ways do cultural differences affect our understanding of art and other forms of communication? How do an artist’s process and choice of medium affect our perception of his or her work? This episode features artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure.

Student Invitational 2012

April 15 – May 17, 2012
Reception: April 18, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Artists Panel Discussion: April 24, 5pm
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College

Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art proudly present Student Invitational 2012, the 35th annual juried exhibition featuring Chaffey College student artists. In this rigorous program, the selected artists work closely with faculty, the museum curators, and other art professionals to create a new body of work, culminating in a professional quality group exhibition at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art.

Student Invitational 2012 will feature the work of Jerry Acosta, Andrea Arceneaux, Mora Douk, Christopher Allen Fontilla, Brooke Green, Sara Koh, Olivia Manchego, Derek Ortega, Gina Nicol, Philip Watson, and John Wood II.

This exhibition, reception, and discussion are free and open to the public.

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art Chaffey College, 5885 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737 M-Th: 10am – 4pm Saturday: noon – 4pm

Parking: Park in the North Parking Lot. Permits can be purchased at vending machines for $2. Parking is free during museum receptions and special events.

Visit Us Online! www.chaffey.edu/wignall

Free Screening of Women Art Revolution

Monday, May 7, 2012 at 3:30pm in CAA-211.

Join (u)ntitled, CAO, and CCFem for a free screening of !Women Art Revolution. After the Screening (u)ntitled will pull the tickets for the opportunity drawing.

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times. LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON Writer / Director / Producer / Editor



Tickets can be bought NOW through Rebecca Trawick, Sheila Taylor, The Wignall Museum or in the the Chaffey Rancho quad April 25th and 26th.

Need not be present to win, tickets are 2 dollars each.

Prizes include:
*tickets to Disneyland
*$100 dollar gift certificate for an hour of tattooing from Action Tattoo
*$100 dollar gift certificate for haircut, color, and style from Candice at Structure Salon.
*2 tickets to The Ice House in Pasadena
*A vintage Diana F+ camera
*An illustration featured in Eat My Heart Out by Pam Aliaga valued at $200 dollars.
and much more!

Thomas Kinkade, 1958-2012

Art critic Jerry Saltz comments on the worthless schmaltz of Kinkade's paintings.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none — not one — of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliché and already told. This is why Kinkade's pictures strike those in the art world as either prepackaged, ersatz, contrived, or cynical. Unoriginal rote things done in his perfectly conventional, balanced people-pleasing way produced these confected conglomerations of things people wanted to think they wanted to think about, democratic paintings whose meanings are hidden from no one, whose appeal is to not to vex or disturb, to produce doubt or newness.

Read complete article hear.

Eadweard J Muybridge Celebrated by Google

Google has changed their logo to a "doodle" today to celebrate the 182nd birthday of Eadweard J Muybridge.

The animated graphic celebrates Muybridge's "The Horse in Motion", a film strip-style collection of shots created using 24 cameras which capture the running habits of racehorses owned by Leland Stanford, a Californian businessman and animal breeder.

Source: Google, The Guardian

Stela of Shishak

The stela is a tall narrow slab made of stone or wood and was usually inscribed or carved in relief with names, laws, and pictures or designs dedicated to the dead. The round-topped funerary stelae appeared in the Middle Kingdom and had continued into later periods. The Stela of Shishak shows the deceased, Shishak, making an offering of bread loaves, cakes and a lotus blossom to the funerary god, Osiris and Osiris consort, Isis, his wife. Osiris is in a mummy form wearing a long divine beard with a wide collar. He has a crown with an uraeus serpent and twin plumes which signifies the king of upper and lower Egypt. He is holding a crook and flail, the symbol of royal authority. Isis is in a traditional dress and long wig. She is wearing a crown of cow horns with sun-disk and uraeus serpent. She holds an ankh sign that is used as a symbol of generation or enduring life. She is extending her other hand in a gesture of supporting for her husband, Osiris. Above the scene is a winged sun disk with two pendants, two uraeus serpents. Below, in eight horizontal registers, is an offering in text invoking two other funerary deities, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris and Anubis. References to various places in the text, suggest that the stela was originally erected in a necropolis near Memphis. I have seen this stela before in texts book and web sites but what has most stood out to me about this stela is the amount of authority and family structure that is seen between a man and his wife.

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Pomona Art Walk!

Pomona Art Walk
2nd Saturday 3-9pm
and Last Saturday 6-9pm

APRIL 20122nd Saturday April 14 (3-9pm)
Last Saturday April 28 (6-9pm

Manuel Ortega