Laguna Art
-what is it that makes Laguna art, or art in the area of orange county proper as some of the best art in the country.
Is it that this is a part of the country, which is so well established financially that it can focus on education and the arts as well as put funding into such, so call leisure industries
Or is it because it is a place of extremes places where, poor and rich create a political and anthropocentric tension, which yields a better environment for expressing that tension through the art. Or is it because in many ways, the culture that has formed here is at the leading edge, of civilized culture in the western world, where it has less history and tradition binding it to rules of particular schools and genres of art but also that it contains an element within its culture, that is both local and global through the lenses of living or being watched as a celebrity story line all over the world. In its celebrity as an environment that is always being watched, one could say that it is a culture that has become a subconscious holograph, guiding a trying to become culture, a culture desiring to be, a leisure culture, a wealthy culture.
“the mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.” Leonardo DaVinchi
reflection?
-There is a strong connection between the surfing culture and art here, is goes back in history 3000 years to Peru, some of the first pieces of surf art showed curved bas relief’s of surfers.
Today there is an integration of art culture and surfing that extend into pop culture and commercialism.
-what is it that makes Laguna art, or art in the area of orange county proper as some of the best art in the country.
Is it that this is a part of the country, which is so well established financially that it can focus on education and the arts as well as put funding into such, so call leisure industries
Or is it because it is a place of extremes places where, poor and rich create a political and anthropocentric tension, which yields a better environment for expressing that tension through the art. Or is it because in many ways, the culture that has formed here is at the leading edge, of civilized culture in the western world, where it has less history and tradition binding it to rules of particular schools and genres of art but also that it contains an element within its culture, that is both local and global through the lenses of living or being watched as a celebrity story line all over the world. In its celebrity as an environment that is always being watched, one could say that it is a culture that has become a subconscious holograph, guiding a trying to become culture, a culture desiring to be, a leisure culture, a wealthy culture.
“the mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.” Leonardo DaVinchi
reflection?
-There is a strong connection between the surfing culture and art here, is goes back in history 3000 years to Peru, some of the first pieces of surf art showed curved bas relief’s of surfers.
Today there is an integration of art culture and surfing that extend into pop culture and commercialism.
It is part of a theme of 20th century art, about burring boundaries, between arts as a prestigious discipline, to one where art is just the documentation of the process of life. However the individual intends to describe it in what ever medium.
“Art today incorporates graffiti, advertisement, the everyday, surfing is as much about clothes as it is attitude, music and hitting the waves”
“Art at the contemporary gallery at Laguna beach captures the minority voice, the many treads of subculture and its transmigration in and out of mainstream pop culture and into the mainstream media. That is the nature of culture here. Its in a way like the movie or music industry, one day your in the lime light, you don’t know how you got there, the next day you are not. These cultures are, always in transition always reinventing themselves. Common treads exist within the networks under the layers of this transient organism.
“it is the art of multi medias here, every media in single or in combination of medias, from artists all over California.
-end of the 19th artists began to come here.
-Laguna beach is a sort of secluded area between the San Joaquin Hills and the ocean.
-called the “pearl of the pacific” by the locals”a slice of heaven of unspoiled heaven on earth.”
- this was a place intended to be an art colony I similar idea to the intention of Barbizon on the outside of Paris, for painters and artists” to paint outdoors in the natural setting.
- she mentions the artists such as Giverny artists such as Monet (who mover there in 1883 and Mendez and Grez-sur-Loing
“France has the imperishable glory of Barbizon: the Eastern US had its Gloucester and the Southwest has Laguna Beach”
- she says the advantages of these remote locations had two benefits.
One was to adopt a lifestyle outside of the city which at the time was becoming very crowed and polluted, and artist could work together in a healthy, relaxed outdoor community without the pressures and faster pace life of the city.
Of the colonies like Barbizon that evolved many of them are said to adopt an impressionistic style of painting
Impressionism “is ubiquitous in the language and dialogue of art history” states Solon
Ubiquitous meaning everywhere and omni-present over the history of art.
-the impressionist style is the common art movement that holds these artists together.
- art colonies form in to different ways according to Ann marling
- one “those that evolve naturally from groups of visiting artists, who were drawn to the location by the scenery,
- two those who planned a place in the hopes that a specific political or social environment that would foster the creative arts.
Laguna beach is one of these colonies.
-Are these impressionistic colonies, attempts to reestablish the hays of nature, the connection with nature? The approach to the painting style lies in the unit, the individual stroke of the painting, as the base for generating the spectrums of colors that create the painting.
-the environments where saturated with nature.
“Art today incorporates graffiti, advertisement, the everyday, surfing is as much about clothes as it is attitude, music and hitting the waves”
“Art at the contemporary gallery at Laguna beach captures the minority voice, the many treads of subculture and its transmigration in and out of mainstream pop culture and into the mainstream media. That is the nature of culture here. Its in a way like the movie or music industry, one day your in the lime light, you don’t know how you got there, the next day you are not. These cultures are, always in transition always reinventing themselves. Common treads exist within the networks under the layers of this transient organism.
“it is the art of multi medias here, every media in single or in combination of medias, from artists all over California.
-end of the 19th artists began to come here.
-Laguna beach is a sort of secluded area between the San Joaquin Hills and the ocean.
-called the “pearl of the pacific” by the locals”a slice of heaven of unspoiled heaven on earth.”
- this was a place intended to be an art colony I similar idea to the intention of Barbizon on the outside of Paris, for painters and artists” to paint outdoors in the natural setting.
- she mentions the artists such as Giverny artists such as Monet (who mover there in 1883 and Mendez and Grez-sur-Loing
“France has the imperishable glory of Barbizon: the Eastern US had its Gloucester and the Southwest has Laguna Beach”
- she says the advantages of these remote locations had two benefits.
One was to adopt a lifestyle outside of the city which at the time was becoming very crowed and polluted, and artist could work together in a healthy, relaxed outdoor community without the pressures and faster pace life of the city.
Of the colonies like Barbizon that evolved many of them are said to adopt an impressionistic style of painting
Impressionism “is ubiquitous in the language and dialogue of art history” states Solon
Ubiquitous meaning everywhere and omni-present over the history of art.
-the impressionist style is the common art movement that holds these artists together.
- art colonies form in to different ways according to Ann marling
- one “those that evolve naturally from groups of visiting artists, who were drawn to the location by the scenery,
- two those who planned a place in the hopes that a specific political or social environment that would foster the creative arts.
Laguna beach is one of these colonies.
-Are these impressionistic colonies, attempts to reestablish the hays of nature, the connection with nature? The approach to the painting style lies in the unit, the individual stroke of the painting, as the base for generating the spectrums of colors that create the painting.
-the environments where saturated with nature.
-What could one of these art colonies be today, rather then being outside the city, could they be oasis inside the city, in these downtown cores perhaps working along side the light industries of the high tech global economic businesses, wealthier communities along side the leisure and traditional histories or need to attach to something historic.
-the connection between the blur of the information age, light industry/light industry with the oasis and the impressionist painting.
Twachtman encouraged the students to explore there paintings in many different weather conditions. the paintings are an accumulation of tones under different climatic conditions; the painting is all about the aggregation of variables as a sum of change
-the connection between the blur of the information age, light industry/light industry with the oasis and the impressionist painting.
Twachtman encouraged the students to explore there paintings in many different weather conditions. the paintings are an accumulation of tones under different climatic conditions; the painting is all about the aggregation of variables as a sum of change
“Shinnecock- on the east coast, long island had Art Village- the center of the social life
Impressionism is key, focus on light spontaneity and high-key chromatics.
All brought to bear on the landscape”
-Painter had to paint what he saw. Chase had his students paint day to night, o that they could document the change in the light as the day went on.
Laguna Beach
–expansion of the railroad in the nineteenth century.
1885 The Santa Fe Railway that went from LA to San Diego
-Laguna Beach was the El Toro Stop, in the city of El Toro.
-one had to take a stage coach from here into the twisting canyons of Laguna Beach.
-because it was so hard to get to, Laguna “maintain a geographic insularity unlike the other art colonies”
-Laguna was not part of the original Spanish land grants it did not allow “homesteading” until 1850 when it joined the state of California. All of the people that move in at the time were forced to sell in the depression at the turn of the century.
-Norman St. Claire is said to have discovered the Colony in 1900 and started an art colony
-Charles Walter Stetson, is said to have visited the colony in 1858-191
-Summer classes began in 1903
- place was great for being in and sketching
1885 The Santa Fe Railway that went from LA to San Diego
-Laguna Beach was the El Toro Stop, in the city of El Toro.
-one had to take a stage coach from here into the twisting canyons of Laguna Beach.
-because it was so hard to get to, Laguna “maintain a geographic insularity unlike the other art colonies”
-Laguna was not part of the original Spanish land grants it did not allow “homesteading” until 1850 when it joined the state of California. All of the people that move in at the time were forced to sell in the depression at the turn of the century.
-Norman St. Claire is said to have discovered the Colony in 1900 and started an art colony
-Charles Walter Stetson, is said to have visited the colony in 1858-191
-Summer classes began in 1903
- place was great for being in and sketching
- William Cahill 1920s, Anna Althea Hills 1913, Benjamin Brown 1908
- Karl yens, Mabel Alvarez, Clarence Hinkle
- Town began to grow in the 1920’s
- Telephone in 1923
- Pacific Coast Blvd. in 1926 now the Pacific coast highway.
-city was incorporated in 1927, the population increased to 1900
- Laguna begins to grow, 1921 a film gets presented around the US, to explain the benefits of investing and living their.
- Artists were cautious about the growth
- There was much debate. Issues such as how the artists were contributing to the town, the publicization of art, keeping the geography of the place intact, whether all this investment would down out the mystery and romance of the town and eventually become un attractive to the artists.
-how to allow the town to grow yet maintain its attraction prowess as an exotic art village.
- residents and artists living together would be the aim of the growing community.
-one of the most popular spots in Laguna was the tent cities on the beach. “People came to stay on the beach during the summer to escape the heat in the cities.”
-Hotels were built here for the purpose of housing these beach dwellers
-the famous were invited here, on many occasions Hotel Laguna
-The Yochs supporters of the arts held exhibitions in the hotels.
-the artists stayed in boarding houses on the beach one famously called the “paint box”
-social popular spots the Yoch hotel and the Isch general store
-the California artists did not stay strictly impressionistic, but many maintained figurative and landscape themes.
-Lisa peters American landscape painters, painted an accessible landscape,
-themes like grandmothers garden, these all done by the eastern impressionist painters more then the west, the west, was more the vast landscape viewed alone out of the context of town and cottage.
-Much of the land was left as it one found. Many of the paintings depicted the rugged landscape.
-often compared with the Hudson river school painters, painting the sublime views of the ocean.
-it was a depiction of an “uncultivated locale.
-still lives were also a theme by artists like Joesph Kleitsch, Frank Cuprien
- Telephone in 1923
- Pacific Coast Blvd. in 1926 now the Pacific coast highway.
-city was incorporated in 1927, the population increased to 1900
- Laguna begins to grow, 1921 a film gets presented around the US, to explain the benefits of investing and living their.
- Artists were cautious about the growth
- There was much debate. Issues such as how the artists were contributing to the town, the publicization of art, keeping the geography of the place intact, whether all this investment would down out the mystery and romance of the town and eventually become un attractive to the artists.
-how to allow the town to grow yet maintain its attraction prowess as an exotic art village.
- residents and artists living together would be the aim of the growing community.
-one of the most popular spots in Laguna was the tent cities on the beach. “People came to stay on the beach during the summer to escape the heat in the cities.”
-Hotels were built here for the purpose of housing these beach dwellers
-the famous were invited here, on many occasions Hotel Laguna
-The Yochs supporters of the arts held exhibitions in the hotels.
-the artists stayed in boarding houses on the beach one famously called the “paint box”
-social popular spots the Yoch hotel and the Isch general store
-the California artists did not stay strictly impressionistic, but many maintained figurative and landscape themes.
-Lisa peters American landscape painters, painted an accessible landscape,
-themes like grandmothers garden, these all done by the eastern impressionist painters more then the west, the west, was more the vast landscape viewed alone out of the context of town and cottage.
-Much of the land was left as it one found. Many of the paintings depicted the rugged landscape.
-often compared with the Hudson river school painters, painting the sublime views of the ocean.
-it was a depiction of an “uncultivated locale.
-still lives were also a theme by artists like Joesph Kleitsch, Frank Cuprien
William Wendt, Guy Rose
-Laguna art association established in 1918, Edgar Payne, he set up the first art gallery
This was one of the first major art organizations in California even competing with cities the size of LA in terms of art support in California.
-This was set up by only a handful of artists and became a cultural center for the area.
-Monterey and Carmel were two other major colonies in California at the time.
-Impressionism survived in Laguna beach until the 1930’s
This was one of the first major art organizations in California even competing with cities the size of LA in terms of art support in California.
-This was set up by only a handful of artists and became a cultural center for the area.
-Monterey and Carmel were two other major colonies in California at the time.
-Impressionism survived in Laguna beach until the 1930’s
from Deborah Epstein Solon Article
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