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San Jose Museum of Art
The San Jose Museum of Art is
located in downtown San Jose, California and started in 1969, with a
marvelous permanent collection that focuses on the west coast
artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum sits next to the
Circle of Palms Plaza and Plaza de Cesar Chavez park. The historic
wing was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and constructed as the
city's post office in 1892, and in 1937 began serving as the city's
library until 1969. The Fine Arts Gallery Association would reopen
it as the Civic Art Gallery and became a California Historical
Landmark in 1972 and added to the National Register of Historic
Places in 1973. The new wing opened in 1991, and contains the
exhibition space for temporary or traveling exhibitions. The
majority of these showcase the artworks of the west coast and the
state, and since it is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, there
are numerous displays that highlight the intersection of technology
and art. In the permanent collection, the vast majority are of the
20th and 21st centuries, focusing mainly on the works of the west
coast and today, has a growing amount of Pacific Rim works. There
are over 2000 works that can be seen in many medias, and include
photographs, drawings, sculpture, prints, paintings, digital media
and paintings with excellent works by such masters as Dale Chihuly,
Roy DeForest, Robert Arneson, Milton Avery, Bill Viola, Deborah
Butterfield, Gregory Barsamian, Raymond Saunders, Joan Brown,
Deborah Oropallo, Jim Campbell, Richard Shaw, Enrique Cahgoya,
Michael McMillen, Ron Davis, Wayne Thiebud, Jay DeFeo, Tony Delap,
William T. Wiley, Richard Diebenkorn, Oliver Jackson, Alan Rath,
Philip Guston, Rupert Garcia, Hung Liu, Long Nguyen, Nathan Oliveira
and Manuel Neri. The museum strives to allow the collection to
evolve as a number of works that reflect the most relative movements
in the history of recent artworks, that showcase the accomplishments
of those emerging west coast artists and the latest works that are
included in the showing of special works. Some of the
marvelous exhibitions now showing include; "New Stories from the
Edge of Asia: Plastic Life" that runs from March 2010 to September,
2010 and is the first in a series that highlight artists from the
Pacific Rim nations and their cultures who continue to discover new
narrative areas by the use of digital techniques, video, film and
animation. Their Plastic Life views the many ways that artists
entwine the past and present, the ancient and future, universal and
local. The Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting exhibit runs
until July 4th, 2010 and showcases the outstanding talents of Wayne,
from his lushful paintings that see glimpse of everyday life, to a
slice of pie and onto a San Francisco steep streetscape; which has
all become part of American Pop Art, although the display looks at
his earlier paintings when he was a young student to the brilliant
beach scenes of today, that Wayne, no w 89 continues to work on.
Real and HyperReal runs through August, 2010 that shows how artists
are able to use various strokes and paints to create wonderful
paintings that take us on a magical mystery tour through the
artistry of today's realism in relation to the digital age. In Juicy
Paint, running to the end of May, 2010, various artists' impressions
are looked at that believe that one painting is worth a thousand
words.
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