Things You Might Want to See…
Like every month, the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art prides itself in presenting news about our artists that are being featured in exhibitions, shows,…
Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University
Hafftka for Hanukkah
Hanukkah begins tonight, and we are recognizing these next eight days and nights with works from a series by Michael Hafftka. As the son…
Student curatorial opportunity!
Have you walked by the current exhibition on the second floor of Argyros Forum and wondered who comes up with these things? Who writes those…
Contemporary Art vs. Modern Art
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word “modern” is defined as, “of or relating to the present time.” The word “contemporary” is defined as “happening or beginning now…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Packin’ Heat (an original poem by Chandana Srinivas, student art collections assistant) With summer gone, a fall season comes anew, this frost brings about…
Pop! Goes the Easel…
After WWII, Atomic power and new technologies changed the entire dynamic of how art was perceived. Mass culture took over formality and breached subject…
From Sanskrit to Art
Victor Hugo Zayas’ paintings are, what I like to call, ‘samatva’. ‘Samatva’ in Sanskrit means in balance. This concept is ever more prominent in…
The Art of Writing about Art
For the final post in The Art of Writing about Art series we turn to the newest work to enter the Escalette Collection: Soo…
The Art of Writing about Art
With Ann Hamilton’s Warp & Weft II, mundane materials (paper, ink) and mundane subject matter (a textile, drawn thin) expand in the imagination to…
The Art of Writing about Art
Baldessari’s Discontent? II Like Rebecca Malkin, Junior Communication Studies major Raphaelle Canaan also sees discontent in Baldessari’s Accordionist (With Crowd) of 1994. However, in…
The Art of Writing about Art
Baldessari’s Discontent? Part I For their first formal analysis assignment, several students in ART 261 chose to write about John Baldessari’s 1994 lithograph Accordionist…
The Art of Writing about Art
In ART 261 students are introduced to the objects, theories, and methods of the study of the history of art from the Renaissance to…