2006 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"

Resource Library 2006 articles and essays with the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century"

(above: Jean Mannheim (1861-1945), A Lonely Tea Party, c.1916, oil on canvasboard, Collection of Stephen P. Diamond, M.D. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons**)

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "California Artists: 19th-21st Century." Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.

Our articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Go Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism (8/25/06), a Crocker Art Museum exhibition produced on the occasion of what would have been Irving Norman's one-hundredth birthday, features paintings that remain as poignant and relevant today as when they were first created. Norman's dark visions not only reflect a troubled and turbulent world, but they convey a sense that Norman understood and wished for change. He believed that by pointing out the inequities, horrors, and foibles of human behavior that he might somehow cause people to consider the consequences of their actions. He intended his canvases as public art, which he hoped would end up in museums where "all people could come and study them and contemplate." Norman's monumental paintings teem with detail and are populated by swarming, clone-like humans. These people are constricted by small urban spaces and modern technology, caught in the crunch of rush hour, and decimated by poverty and war.

Go Manuel Valencia: California's Native Son; essay by Julie Armistead (7/26/06)

Go Manuel Valencia: California's Native Son (1856-1935) (7/10/06), a Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary's College retrospective of more than fifty paintings by this turn of the century landscape painter selected from public and private collections.

Go F. Scott Hess: The Seven Laughters of God and Other Paintings (4/28/06), a Laguna Art Museum exhibition that features Los Angeles-based painter F. Scott Hess's newest series, The Seven Laughters of God and is accompanied by a 48-page fully illustrated exhibition catalog with essays by renowned art critic Donald Kuspit. Hess has been in two other exhibitions at the Museum, most recently Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art in 2001. The exhibition will add significantly to Hess's reputation in Southern California, especially in light of the resurgence in narrative and representational painting that has occurred in the last several years.he subjects that comprise the seven eponymous paintings in Hess's series.

Go John Bankston: Locating Desire (2/8/06), a de Young installation which runs from February 25 through June 25, 2006. According to Daniell Cornell, curator of American Art and Director of Contemporary Art Projects, "The Museum asks the Connections Gallery artists to think about their own experience as museum visitors, and to incorporate into their own work objects from the museum's collection. There are as many ways to go through a museum as there are artists to interpret the cultural life we share." John Bankston: Locating Desire is an installation of twenty 23 x 30 1/2 inch works on paper in color pencil, watercolor, oil pastel and acrylic, as well as four oil on linen paintings, two 72 x 96 inch and two 66 x 60 inch.

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