Californian Art

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This paper explores what makes a Californian artist and how this definition has changed throughout history. It describes the terms which characterize Californian art such as: plein-air painting, tonalist painting, and more. It details certain famous Californian artists like Amil Jean Kosa Jr., Simon Rodia and many more. It studies the major influences on Californian artists ranging from New York to Europe.

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"To write about a California style of painting is to write about a subject as large and diverse as the state itself, which is to say that nearly everything that has been done in art since at least World War II and probably since the beginning of the 20th century has been done in California. And yet despite the diversity of art that is created in the state " which means that in one sense there is no particularly Californian style of art " there are certain artists who seem to typify what might be called a Californian mode of expression for us. This paper explores what makes certain artists " regardless of their biographical antecedents " quintessentially California and how what constitutes the Californian artist changes from one historical moment to the next."

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