Author: Book Club of California
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
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Painting California
Author: Jean Stern
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847860590
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Luminous, gorgeously realized landscape paintings made en plein air by members of the California Art Club over the past 100 years. This volume showcases 200 works by California Art Club artists who have focused on the evocative seascapes, charming seaside towns, and beach communities from San Diego to San Francisco, demonstrating a breathtaking range of natural settings suffused with atmosphere, drama, and light. Since the dawn of the twentieth century, California has been home to artists from all over America and Europe who aspired to depict the state’s compelling natural landscapes on canvas. In 1909, these artists founded the California Art Club, which stands today as one of the most esteemed painting societies in the United States. This volume, which follows Skira Rizzoli’s luminous California Light: A Century of Landscapes, presents more of the club’s distinctive and lush plein air painting, an impressionistic style in which painters work outdoors in order to capture the ephemeral moment when the natural lighting of a landscape elevates an already beautiful scene into something sublime. As observed by W.H. Auden, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” We as a species are drawn to the sea—artists perhaps even more so than others, as beautifully evidenced in this book.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847860590
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Luminous, gorgeously realized landscape paintings made en plein air by members of the California Art Club over the past 100 years. This volume showcases 200 works by California Art Club artists who have focused on the evocative seascapes, charming seaside towns, and beach communities from San Diego to San Francisco, demonstrating a breathtaking range of natural settings suffused with atmosphere, drama, and light. Since the dawn of the twentieth century, California has been home to artists from all over America and Europe who aspired to depict the state’s compelling natural landscapes on canvas. In 1909, these artists founded the California Art Club, which stands today as one of the most esteemed painting societies in the United States. This volume, which follows Skira Rizzoli’s luminous California Light: A Century of Landscapes, presents more of the club’s distinctive and lush plein air painting, an impressionistic style in which painters work outdoors in order to capture the ephemeral moment when the natural lighting of a landscape elevates an already beautiful scene into something sublime. As observed by W.H. Auden, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” We as a species are drawn to the sea—artists perhaps even more so than others, as beautifully evidenced in this book.
California on Canvas
Author: Book Club of California
Publisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
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Paintings of California
Author: Arnold Skolnick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520211841
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of paintings by various artists that were inspired by the landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes of California.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520211841
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of paintings by various artists that were inspired by the landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes of California.
California! On Canvas! Programme ...
Author: Thomas A. Ayres
Publisher:
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
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If Pictures Could Talk
Author: James L. Coran
Publisher: Wim
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Publisher: Wim
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Extreme Canvas
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Dilettante Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film-distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven. In the book's four major essays, author Ernie Wolfe III recounts the rise and fall of the mobile cinema tradition, while noted African art scholar Roy Sieber follows two-dimensional art in Africa from rock paintings in the Sahara to contemporary manuals, wall paintings, and barber board paintings as well as the canvas movie posters themselves; Paul Hayes Tucker compares the phenomenon to 19th century European utility-based painting; and poet and art critic John Yau contributes the perspective of an American art historian. In addition, Hollywood film notables such as horror auteur Clive Barker, actor LeVar Burton, actress Anjelica Huston, and director Gus Van Sant contribute chapter introductions.
Publisher: Dilettante Press
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film-distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven. In the book's four major essays, author Ernie Wolfe III recounts the rise and fall of the mobile cinema tradition, while noted African art scholar Roy Sieber follows two-dimensional art in Africa from rock paintings in the Sahara to contemporary manuals, wall paintings, and barber board paintings as well as the canvas movie posters themselves; Paul Hayes Tucker compares the phenomenon to 19th century European utility-based painting; and poet and art critic John Yau contributes the perspective of an American art historian. In addition, Hollywood film notables such as horror auteur Clive Barker, actor LeVar Burton, actress Anjelica Huston, and director Gus Van Sant contribute chapter introductions.
California Art
Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Art in California
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates Lowry
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Publications in Southern California Art 1, 2, & 3
Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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