GLOBAL VISION
Global Vision: Lanier Graham, the Gallery Director from California State East Bay, is sharing an exhibition that he created which brings together images from around the world into a comprehensive and related whole. He has added an excellent commentary:
Diversity always has been at the heart of our exhibition program. We have exhibited the traditional art Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well as modern work from Europe and the United States. However,
this is the first time we have been able to evoke in one exhibition the rich diversity of humanity as a whole. To see art from all around the world
is something people usually go to large museums to experience. This exhibition is a rare opportunity for our students to see a concentrated survey of "World Art" in a single gallery. Included are works of exceptional quality from every major era of Art History: Prehistoric, Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary. The focus of the selection is Africa, Asia, and the modern tradition in Europe and the United States. A future exhibition will feature Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Minoan, Greek, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance art, as well as the traditional art of North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. In this exhibition are examples from the tribal world, as well as from Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Tibet, and West Asia. Highlights include a wall of powerful African masks worn by both men and women, shamanic carvings from New Guinea, a major group of Chinese sculpture starting with the neolithic period and continuing through the Shang, Chou, Han, Tang, and Sung Dynasties, as well as famous prints of the 19th-century by Hokusai and Hiroshige, and calligraphy by Zen teachers such as Bunsho roshi and Suzuki roshi. Other Asian masterpieces include a dynamic Shiva Nataraja from India, ancient Gandhara Buddhas, a luminous Walking Buddha from Thailand, and an elaborate Tibetan altar.
From the modern era in Europe and the United States are works by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, Gauguin, Cézanne, Kandinsky, Marc, Dix, Nolde, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Dali, Duchamp, Ernst, Miro, Magritte, Arp, Tanning, Sommer, Michels, Conner, Pollock, de Kooning, Motherwell and Frankenthaler, as well as contemporary work by Rauschenberg, Johns, Bearden, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Indiana, Chagoya, Hernandez, and Kruger.
There are over 100 original works on display, as well as a number of replicas to stimulate comparative study. The exhibition is a striking vision of humanity's extraordinary diversity and spiritual strength, from the time of our tribal ancestors to the present. We are grateful to the Institute for Aesthetic Development, a charitable trust devoted to visual education, for these loans from its teaching collection of World Art.
Lanier Graham, Director, University Art Gallery, CSUEB
Note: You will notice that a few of the art works have a symbol which
says "Art Work not Available." Although we do not have permission to
display the images on the web we included the related text so that
you could see their place in the exhibition.
Select: Gobal Vision 106
ALGERIA
Algeria: Over 1300 images of Algeria have been added, images which include Prehistoric paintings from the southern desert of Tassili; Berbers and Tuaregs; premier Roman sites like Timgad and Hippo Regius, the home of St. Augustine; medieval towns and Islamic mosques,; modern cities and above all images of the Algerian people themselves. Check out the following portfolios:
Algeria: People and Environment 305
Algerian: Ancient 531
Algerian: Medieval & Early Modern 292
Algerian: Modern 216
Berbers & Tuaregs 381
North African Prehistoric 101
CORAL REEF
Coral Reef: A scuba-diving photographer is sharing her images illustrating fish behavior and we are adding them to our Coral Reef portfolio. See the symbiotic relationships between anemone and anemone fish where stinging anemones provide shelter for tiny fish in exchange for their nourishing waste products, and cleaning stations where small wrasses pick parasites and dead skin from large fish, even entering their mouths without being eaten. Check out the following:
Coral Reef 134
SOURISSEAU ACADEMY
Sourisseau Academy: A collaboration has begun between the IMAGE Project, the SJSU Library and the Sourisseau Academy with 174 images of gardens and local history from the Clark B, Waterhouse Collection. We look forward to continued with together. To examine the collection click the link below:
Sourisseau Academy: Clark B, Waterhouse Collection 174
ANCIENT ART FROM BERLIN
Ancient Art from Berlin: New images from the Antikensammlung and the Pergamon Museums in Berlin have been added to the following portfolios:
Egyptian Painting 127
Egyptian Sculpture 439
Greek Ceramics & Painting 535
Greek Sculpture 1000
Nubian Art 75
SLAVES & PRISONERS
Civil War and Slavery: Images depicting slavery in America and Maryland's role in the Civil War have been added to the following:
American History: Slavery and the Civil War 144
And a few portfolio of slavery in other times and places has been assembled. See Slaves & Slavery 102
CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
WorldImages is helping California teachers with their mandated curriculum by gathering relevant images and listing them under the appropriate standards. We are proud to announce a set for 4th grade students, focusing on California, which joins standards for 6th and 10 grades. The new portfolios present: Maps; Geography: the Land & its Creatures; Exploration of the North Pacific; California Missions; Mexican Rancho Period; Bear Flag Republic thru Statehood 1846-1850's; Development after the 1850's; California Immigration & Migration; Development 1900's to present; and California's Impact on 20th c Art and Culture. That is a lot of 4th graders to learn, and we hope our images can help them.
See California Educational Standards and select the appropriate portfolios.
DESTROYED ART WORKS
While we show you thousands of images of art works that exist around the world, many more have been destroyed. This portfolio shows 130 paintings that no longer exist, many of them lost or destroyed during World War II, and the giant Buddha in Afghanistan that destroyed by the Taliban.
See Destroyed Images.
THE GOLDEN ROAD TO SAMARKAND
We take you on the Golden
Road to Samarkand with almost 2000 images from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Central
Asia. To the site where Alexander married the beautiful Roxanna, to the cities destroyed by Genghis
Kahn and later rebuilt by Tamerlane, cites which gained their wealth from the countless caravans
plodding along the famous Silk Route. The traditions of the ancient weavers live on, creating
gorgeous textiles and fabulous tribal costumes. See Central Asian People and Environment;
Central Asian History
; Central Asia:
Medieval & Early Modern; Central Asian Architecture: Medieval to
Modern; Central
Asian Textiles.
THE CORAL REEF
One hundred beautiful images from coral
reefs around the world show brilliantly colored corals and sponges with long armed feather stars
stretching in the currents, tiny iridescent tunicates clinging to the corals, anemone fish darting
to take shelter in the stinging anemones, and the stripes and plumes of strangely colored
nudibranchs advertising the fact that they are poisonous. It is a beautiful world. We invite marine
biologists and scuba divers to help us further identify some of these mysterious creatures. See: The Coral Reef .
MYSTERY IMAGES
In addition to some of the denizens of the deep, we have two sets of
images that can challenge you. The first set, an ancient palace under restoration, was taken from a
helicopter in Iraq, and we would like any information that could be provided. The second is a set
of western paintings from the National Museum of Turkmenistan, many of which were unlabeled. From
what we could learn, they had belonged to a wealthy landowner who gave them to the museum for
safekeeping during an uprising. One seems to be an early Rembrandt, another, a Domenichino, and
there are a number of handsome Russian portraits. Let us know what you think. See: Mystery Images
Horses & Horse
Gear
The domestication of horses in Central Asia around 1000 BCE changed the way human
beings fought and lived their lives. The ability to ride spread both east and west over Eurasia.
Nomads from the steppes of Russia decorated their horses with elaborate masks and saddle blankets
that have been preserved in ancient tombs. Chinese Emperors sent great distances for the famous
"horses of the wind",and European knights covered their sturdy horses with richly decorated armor
plate.
Dogs & Cats
Dogs and Cats The Egyptians considered both dogs and cats as divine, and made them into gods, but
they also portrayed them intimately nursing their young. Large dogs, early hunting companions for
man, were the first dogs portrayed, while small dogs came later. Greeks showed boys playing with
their puppies and girls with their kittens. The ancient Chinese placed sculptures of guard dogs in
their tombs. Romans used dogs for hunting as well as for ing, even placing mosaics of dogs on their
doorsteps exhorting visitors to "Beware of the Dog." The images show how different breeds developed
over time. Hunting dogs continued to be important, but by the Renaissance small dogs were often
portrayed on their mistresses laps. By the 19th century portraits were done of pets by name and the
luxury designer Rene Lalique created jeweled dog-collars. In the 20th the Ukrainian Conceptual
artist Oleg Kulik had himself videoed wearing nothing but a spiked dog collar.
We have recently added 1500 images of far away Ethiopia and Eritrea have been added to the database. Click to explore the art and people of these fascinating countries:
Ethiopian & Eritrean Architecture
Ethiopian & Eritrean Life & Land
Ethiopian Painting
We have also recently added over 1500 images from Moscow and St. Petersburg. You will
find many of them included in the following portfolios: Russian
Architecture; Russian Applied
Arts (great jewelry from the Armory); Russian History;
Russian Painting (from Byzantine to contemporary) and Russian
Sculpture. You can explore over 400 images from the rich collection of the
Hermitage Museum by selecting this portfolio and then using the zoom feature of the
database.
Don Nelson (Biology, Cal State Long Beach). Dr. Nelson, who is now deceased, was the
major contributor to one of the first CSU on-line projects, a Biology Database. We are pleased to
honor his contribution and to present his work on the WorldImage database:
Biology: Photographs; Biology:
Movies
Mark Levy (Art History, Cal State East Bay). Dr. Levy was one of the first CSU
faculty members to contribute images to the IMAGE Project. His beautiful images from India, Japan,
Tibet, Burma, Vietnam and Indonesia (over 300 of them) provide a solid corpus for the study of art
works from these areas. See Levy:
Asian Art.
Oliver Seely (Chemistry, Cal State Dominguez Hills) Dr. Seely's
interests in photography, the environment and the history of technology led him to design a
sabbatical project in which he learned to digitize and catalogue over 400 educational images he and
his family had taken and contribute them to the IMAGE project. See Seely Technology; Seely: Nature and Environment ; Seely: Architecture.
Sabbatical Leaves: We want to encourage faculty members to share the results of
their sabbaticals that involve images with their colleagues and with students throughout the world.
See Dr. Seely's sabbatical report at Sabbatical Leave Final Report. The IMAGE
staff will be glad to work with you regarding appropriate formats for images and
cataloging.