Oakland Museum of California
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Last Thursday, I visited Oakland Museum of California, which had just undergone a renovation. The special exhibit is
Pixar - 25 Years Animation exhibit, which has traveled the world and now came back home to the East Bay. It was educational and fun exhibit. Pixar's talents were truly amazing. Unavoidably, this kind show will have some dull part but mostly amusing. I am inclined to seek out copies of Finding Nemo and An Insect's Life and that is a proof that I was quite taken in by the exhibit. The exhibit runs from July 31, 2010 through January 9, 2011.
I also took time to visit the permanent collections of Oakland Museum of California. The museum has three parts - History, Nature and Art. There are many interesting installations around the building, starting with Ruth Asawa's 1974 untitled piece, which greeted visitors at the entrance. There are also many interesting viewed from windows inside the museum:
Untitled, 1974, Ruth Asawa, Bronze wire and copper pipe
The collections in the art galleries are arranged thematically. It will be a nightmare for visitor to museums in much grander size but for this one, it worked just fine.
In order to keep my thoughts more organized, I decide to present artworks I enjoy in chronological order, rather than following their leads.
There are many paintings by "California" school, particularly by Richard Diebenkorn. But the collections went back to late 19th century and till current time. It also contain some graphic arts and photographies:
Still Life, 1891, Oil on Canvas, Emil Carlsen
Nocturnal Street Scene, Early 20th Century, Oil on Canvas, Charles Rollo Peters
Reflection, 1904, Oil on Canvas, Gottardo Piazzoni
Youth, c. 1917, Oil on Canvas, Arthur F. Matthews
Boat and Yellow Hill, c. 1920s, Oil on Canvas, Selden Connor Gile
Untitled, 1947, Oil on Canvas, Mark Rothko
Untitled, 1949, Oil on Canvas, Edward Corbett
The Illustrated History of the Universe, 1955, Oil on Masonite, Jay DeFeo
Figure, c. 1956-57, Oil on Canvas, Bruce McGaw
Figure in Landscape, c. 1957, Elmer Bischoff
Women in Landscape, 1958, Oil on Canvas, David Park
Spring Nude, 1962, Oil on Canvas, Nathan Oliveira
Berkeley No. 20, 1954, Oil on Canvas, Richard Diebenkorn
Figure on a Porch, 1959, Oil on Canvas, Richard Diebenkorn
Seated Nude - Arm on Knee, 1962,Oil on Canvas, Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 107, 1978, Oil on Canvas, Richard Diebenkorn
Invented Landscape, 1966, Acrylic on Paper, Richard Diebenkorn
#4, 1978, Aquatint, Etching, and Drypoint, Richard Diebenkorn
Upper Sacramento Vally, 1985, Type-C Color Pint, Reagan Louie
Free State, 1994, Acrylic on Canvas, David Simpson
Away from two-dimensional works, I group them into Ceramics, Decorative Works and Sculptures, Installations and Videos.
Ceramics:
Plate, 1962, Glazed Clay, Peter Voulkos, Oakland Museum of California
Electrical Insulator, 1900-1975, Glazed Ceramic (Hollow)
Sculptures and Installations:
Black Figure Stele, 1975, Stoneware with Polychrome Stains, Stephen de Staebler
Never-Ending Screen, 1974, Aluminum, Claire Falkenstein
Amiyose III, 1965, Monofilament, Dye, and Fiber, Kay Seklmachi
Untitled, c, 1959-60, Copper Tube, Wood, Nail, Burlap, and Fiberglass, Seymour Locks
Left wall: Point of Touch: Bathsheba, 1995, Linen, Ryon, Oil Paint, ad Dye, Lia Cook // Backwall: How to Charter a Coarse, 1971, Mixed Media, William T. Wiley
Installation at the front: How to Charter a Coarse, 1971, Mixed Media, William T. Wiley // Painting at the back: Stree, 1961, Oil on Canvas, Richard Diebenkorn
Aristotle's Cage, 1983-92, Mixed media installation, Michael C. McMillen
Untitled, 1967, Coated Glass, Plexiglass, and Metal Stripping, Larry Bell
Just a Matter of Time, 1990, Mixed Media, Paul Kos and Untitled, 1967, Coated Glass, Plexiglass, and Metal Stripping, Larry Bell
Just a Matter of Time, 1990, Mixed Media, Paul Kos, Oakland Museum of California
Just a Matter of Time, 1990, Mixed Media, Paul Kos and "Yard of Earth", a simple ecological system, Oakland Museum of California
Video:
Color Combination, 2000, Color DVD with Sound, Kota Ezawa
Decorative art and historical artifacts:
Franc Pierce Hammon Memorial Windows, 1925, Leaded Stained Glass, Arthur F. Matthews
Then, a little bit of history:
An Artist's Studio, Early 20th Century Style
Curatorial Departments, 19th century natural scientist bureau
Curatorial Departments, 1976 history department office
Curatorial Departments, present-day contemporary art
View of San Francisco, 1853, Unknown, Six whole plate daguerreotypes in vintage frame
Looking down to the history gallery - California's Gold Rush era
Looking down to the history gallery - California in the decades after World War II
Grand Canal, Venice
Projection
Waste Land
Traces
A Young Man in Padua
A Young Parisian
Expectant
Boy in Venice
Viennese Boy, Museum Goer
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