Painting California: Seascapes and Beach Towns

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Luminous, gorgeously realized landscape paintings made en plein air by members of the California Art Club over the last 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. For the reason that break of day of the twentieth century, California has been home to artists from everywhere The us 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 nowadays as one of the crucial esteemed painting societies in america. 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 with a purpose 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 most likely even more so than others, as beautifully evidenced in this book.

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