Visions Of California

Visions Of California DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY story of scene painting artists art Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: KOCE-TV Released: 1994 Media: DVD Visions Of CaliforniaTHE STORY OF CALIFORNIA SCENE PAINTING The decades of the 1930s and 1940s marked a turning point in American art. The social and economic upheaval brought about by the Great Depression caused many American artists to reject European influences and to seek distinctively "American" themes and idioms. The resulting phenomenon, known as American Scene Painting, spurred the development of regional schools of art across the country. On the West Coast, the movement produced a distinctive body of art known as California Scene Painting. California artists investigated their surroundings with intense interest, painting every aspect of the visual world, from tenements and trolleys to circuses and citrus groves. They also made a fresh and spontaneous style of watercolor painting one of the hallmarks of the California Scene.