Essay on Landscaping the Perspective of Arts in California Painting
Instructions
Directions: Select one of the following paintings from the exhibition “The Resonant Surface:
Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting,” at theUCI Langson Institute and
Museum of California Art (open through February 12, 2022). In 3-5 pages (12 point font, double
spaced) please describe and analyze how particular subjects are visually conveyed in the artwork.
Additionally, please directly reference course readings or other scholarly sources in order to
contextualize the artwork within the broader history of artistic experimentation in California.
Please use MLA parenthetical citations or Chicago style footnotes and include a works cited
page.
Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting,” at theUCI Langson Institute and
Museum of California Art (open through February 12, 2022). In 3-5 pages (12 point font, double
spaced) please describe and analyze how particular subjects are visually conveyed in the artwork.
Additionally, please directly reference course readings or other scholarly sources in order to
contextualize the artwork within the broader history of artistic experimentation in California.
Please use MLA parenthetical citations or Chicago style footnotes and include a works cited
page.
Excerpt
Landscaping the Perspective of Arts in California Painting
The Resonant Surface invites us to pause our sight and engage in an integrated and comprehensive encounter of artworks that involves Harmonic landscapes, percussive abstractions, sound and color explorations, and another multimodal content challenge visual perception’s responsiveness. The show examines these graphic, motion, and sound experiments in early to mid-twentieth-century California art. It recounts how creators have historically used painting to probe the complex structure of perceiving beyond eyesight, establishing links across time, place, pictures, objects, and experiences.
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