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.
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.
Art in California
Author: Jenni Sorkin
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050077613X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
An introduction to the rich and diverse art of California, this book highlights its distinctive role in the history of American art, from early-20th-century photography to Chicanx mural painting, the Fiber Art Movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences including waves of migration and exchange from the Pacific Rim and Mexico, the influx of African Americans immediately after World War II, and global immigration after quotas were lifted in the 1960s, California is a centre of artistic activity whose influence extends far beyond its physical boundaries. Furthermore, California was at the forefront of radical developments in artistic culture, most notably conceptual art and feminism, and its education system continues to nurture and encourage avant-garde creativity. Organized chronologically and thematically with illustrations throughout, this attractive study stands as an important reassessment of Californias contribution to modern and contemporary art in the United States and globally.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050077613X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
An introduction to the rich and diverse art of California, this book highlights its distinctive role in the history of American art, from early-20th-century photography to Chicanx mural painting, the Fiber Art Movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences including waves of migration and exchange from the Pacific Rim and Mexico, the influx of African Americans immediately after World War II, and global immigration after quotas were lifted in the 1960s, California is a centre of artistic activity whose influence extends far beyond its physical boundaries. Furthermore, California was at the forefront of radical developments in artistic culture, most notably conceptual art and feminism, and its education system continues to nurture and encourage avant-garde creativity. Organized chronologically and thematically with illustrations throughout, this attractive study stands as an important reassessment of Californias contribution to modern and contemporary art in the United States and globally.
American Scene Painting
Author: Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Plein Air Painters of California, the North
Author: Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher: Westphal Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Westphal Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Our Historic Desert
Author: Diana Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Artists in California, 1786-1940
Author: Edan Milton Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
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.
Made in California
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520227654
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Made in California is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics relevant to its visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520227654
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Made in California is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics relevant to its visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
California Impressionists
Author: Susan Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780915977222
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California . . . This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression . . . it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase . . . The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780915977222
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California . . . This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression . . . it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase . . . The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia.
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965
Author: Caroline A. Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068421
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068421
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park