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
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