Welcome,

this is the general Information page for courses taught by Marlene Angeja at the School of Art & Design, San Jose State University. My office is in room Art311. Office Hours: T/TH 11-12. Contact: marlene.angeja@sjsu.edu

For the Spring 2009 semester I will be teaching Art 12/2D Concepts and Art14/Color. Click on your course in the top bar to access the Syllabus, Green Sheet, Assignments and examples of Student Work.

Below you will find a list of Museums and Galleries to choose from for the MUSEUM VISIT ASSIGNMENT (final paper in Art 12 & 14). Check each websites for current shows, days open, prices and maps.

The bottom of this page includes links to the following resources:

The right column contains links to newspaper articles and reviews of current shows for your information.

Note 4/29: Students should check the SJSU main page for Swine Flue updates.

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES:

Richard Diebnekorn
Richard Diebenkorn, "Seawall" (De Young Museum collection)

MORE FROM AROUND THE WEB:

MUSEUMS/San Francisco:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) close to Montgomery St. Bart Station (see map)

American Painting at De Young Museum, San Francisco

European Painting at Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Click here for the SFChronicle events page. Choose type of art and city.

MUSEUMS/South Bay:

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

San Jose Museum of Art

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

Triton Museum of Art

Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College

MUSEUMS/East Bay:

Berkeley Art Museum

Oakland Museum of California

GALLERIES/San Francisco: (all close to Montgomery St. Bart Station)

Braunstein/Quay

Catherine Clark Gallery

Crown Point Gallery

Fraenkel Gallery current show: "Edward Hopper and Company" (through May 2)

Gallery Paule Anglim

Haines Gallery

Jack Fischer Gallery Current show: Emma Harris-Sintamarian
(represents sjsu faculty: Gina Pearlin, Emma Harris-Sintamarian)

John Berggruen

Patricia Sweetow
(represents sjsu faculty: Gale Antokal)

Rena Bransten
(represents sjsu faculty: Rupert Garcia)

Stephen Wirtz
(here is a show I had at Wirtz in 06)

111 Minna Gallery

Paul Thiebaud Gallery (Thru Nov 7, 2008: Franz Kline on paper)

Southern Exposure

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Click here for a comprehensive list of San Francisco Galleries

RESOURCES: OPEN SOURCE / FREE SOFTWARE

GIMP: an open source Image Processor.

Inkscape: an open source vector graphics editor, similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X.

Blender: a free open source 3D content creation suite.

Avidemux: a free video editor. Supports AVI, MP4, ASF etc.

Open Office: an open source suite includes Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentations, Drawing, Database

PDF Creator: creates a pdf from any program that is able to print.

RESOURCES: Images, timelines, and other study aids

Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Web Gallery of Art (searchable database of European art - large images)

World Images database (worldimages.sjsu.edu)

Timeline of western philosophy/art/music (This is my own working study guide.)

Tate Museum Events PODCAST (artist talks - subscribe through itunes)

SJSU Foundations Website (This is the site for our core program in art at SJSU - Readings & Images section)

SHMOOP (a new on-line study guide for Literature, US History and Poetry)

POP CULTURE - artists in popular media:

Lust for Life (1956 old classic based on an Irving Stone novel. Kirk Douglas is Van Gogh. Anthony Quinn plays Gauguin)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1956 movie based on an Irving Stone novel. Charlton Heston is Michelangelo)

Vincent & Theo (1990 movie directed by Robert Altman about Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Tim Roth is Van Gogh.)

The Horse's Mouth (1958 movie based on the novel by the same title about a curmudgeonly Modern artist)

Pollock (2000 movie directed by Ed Harris, who also plays Jackson Pollock)

Impromptu (1991 fiction involving a group of artists, musicians, writers including Delacroix)

Hasan Elahi (SJSU Digital Media faculty) on Colbert Report, May 7 2008
his projects including Tracking Transience: http://elahi.sjsu.edu/

Shepard Fairey on Colbert Report, Jan 15 2009 ("Obey Giant" and Obama Hope poster)

Movies by painters:

Johnny Mnemonic 1995 movie by painter, Robert Longo based on William Gibson short story. He also did a "Tales from the Crypt" and an R.E.M music video.

Office Killer 1997 black comedy/horror movie by photographer Cindy Sherman

Basquiat 1986 movie about Jean Michelle Basquiat by painter Julian Schnabel

Before Night Falls (Antes Que Anochezca) 2000, by Julian Schanbel about Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990)

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly 2007, Schnabel's latest movie

 

Barry McGee