
David Ligare
California Classicist
Papadakis (Publisher)
Published on 7. May 2015
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-906506-54-4 (ISBN)
Description
David Ligare masterfully promotes Classical ideals as relevant to modern life, employing the captivating natural light of the Californian coast. It includes over 200 reproductions and photographs as well as revelatory essays. It coincides with the exhibition David Ligare: California Classicist at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. David Ligare's paintings of figures, landscapes, architectural subjects and still lifes are permeated by the lessons of antiquity. These exquisitely executed works of art are also decidedly contemporary, promoting Classical ideals as relevant to modern life and featuring California light and land. Setting subjects within the specifics of California - and the Monterey Peninsula region in particular - he bathes them in the pure and wondrous light of the coast. Such a beautiful locale provides a convincingly glorious backdrop for subjects that are richly layered, broadly universal and even conceptual.
This publication, released in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, (running from 7 June to 20 September 2015), evinces Ligare's admiration for the ancients and his love of California through revelatory essays, a chronology and more than 200 reproductions and photographs.
This publication, released in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, (running from 7 June to 20 September 2015), evinces Ligare's admiration for the ancients and his love of California through revelatory essays, a chronology and more than 200 reproductions and photographs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newbury
United Kingdom
Illustrations
full colour throughout, includes photographs, includes prints
Dimensions
Height: 316 mm
Width: 292 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
2333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906506-54-4 (9781906506544)
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Growing up in Southern California, David Ligare (born 1945) developed a vision of light informed by his proximity to the Pacific Ocean. After attending the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, he moved north, for a time living in Big Sur and Santa Barbara. He began to fully embrace Classicism in the late 1970s and, at the same time, relocated permanently to Monterey County, California, where he continues his quest to create evocatively beautiful, classically inspired paintings that transcend time and place.