Source: (1-7) Calvin Liang Fine Art. Chinese-born Calvin Liang is a highly-esteemed American Plein Air painter, a Master Member of Oil Painters of America and American Impressionist Society, and a Signature Member of California Art Club and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
Plein Air painting is an immersive Fine Art technique popularised in the 19th century in France. It takes painters out of the art studio and into the great outdoors, where the aim is to strive to recreate movement, light effects, luminosity as it is being experienced on location, at a particular time of day. Historically the mastery of natural light was the key element that defined the Impressionist movement. Plein Air developed further into Realism, Naturalism and Luminism, via the French Barbizon School and the American Hudson River School, praised for the detailed, lifelike, almost photographic quality of their landscapes.
Further Reading:
- Barbizon School, via Artsy
- L'Impressionisme (French article), via Larousse
The last picture has a rather Roger Dean-ish vibe going. I've not been familiar with Liang's work previously, and also enjoyed these California coastal seascapes---Heather and I spent our first anniversary in Carmel :D Thank you for sharing, Nathanlie! .....allan
ReplyDeleteHey Allan! I'm pleased you enjoyed those scenic views as much as I did! They are really inspirational, and even more so, once visited. I believe those types of rolled-out seascapes stay with us for life. Carmel is a bijou of a place and a great destination for an anniversary. Roby and I have just spent ours here in Corsica, gazing at the sea (3 miles away) from our terrace. Not quite California but remotely close enough! ;-) All the best.
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