Author: Jean Stern
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847860590
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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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.
Author: Gordon T. McClelland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616581084
Category : California in art
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Author: Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher: Westphal Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher: Westphal Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Susan Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780915977222
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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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.
Author: Diana Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Edan Milton Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Author: Herschel Browning Chipp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520014503
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Author: Gordon T. McClelland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780914589105
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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