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Everyday
Life in California" -- Regional Watercolors,
1930-1960
May 15, 2004 - November
14, 2004 |
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"Everyday
Life in California - Regional Watercolors, 1930-1960" was
curated by Orange County collector Mark Hilbert
and the Heritage Museum's staff curator Michael
Trotter.
California has been the home to a large number of extremely talented and versatile
watercolor artists. While some became nationally and internationally recognized,
most were largely overlooked until recent years. The exhibition opened on May
15 and includes watercolors by Rex Brandt, Emil Kosa Jr., Barse Miller, Charles
Payzant, and Millard Sheets, among many others.
To some degree these young artists were rebelling against the established Plein
Aire landscape painters that dominated the Southern California art scene in the
late 1920s. To help define this as a new art movement they largely ignored the
untouched natural landscape subjects that were glorified by the Plein Aire artists.
Instead they chose to express themselves artistically by using elements of cityscape
and suburban scenes with people, cars and buildings as subject matter for the
works of art. In addition, they preferred to use watercolor on paper, instead
of oils on canvas, which further separated them from the old school of artists.
The unique difference between Southern California and Northern California watercolor
painting styles also is evident in this exhibit.
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