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Pages in category "Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 243 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Artists from San Francisco" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 359 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Artists who were born in, have lived in, have worked in or been involved with California. Also, art movements based in California. Also, art movements based in California. The category also includes artisans from California (see Category:Artisans ).
The history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area includes major contributions to contemporary art, including Abstract Expressionism. The area is known for its cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner , Bruce Nauman , and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces .
A list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, video art, and digital art.
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
The terms California Impressionism and California Plein-Air Painting describe the large movement of 20th century artists who worked out of doors (en plein air), directly from nature in California, United States. Their work became popular in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California in the first three decades after the turn of the 20th ...
Bay Area Map (1934), one of Oldfield's frescos at Coit Tower. In 1925, Oldfield had a successful solo show at San Francisco’s Galerie Beaux Arts, an exhibit of work made while he was living in France. [5] In 1929, Oldfield had two exhibitions of San Francisco water scenes at Montross Gallery in New York City. [5] [7]