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California landscape painting - landscape painting and seascape painting, plein-aire paintings. Artist Z. Sverdlove's art gallery of oil paintings of subjects in and around San Gabriel Valley.
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<p>This website shows a selection of California landscape paintings, seascape
paintings, and plein-aire works by the artist, Zolita Sverdlove, with
emphasis on scenes from Pasadena, Los Angeles, Orange County, and the San
Gabriel Valley. Works include oil paintings, watercolors, pastels and
monotypes, but in general the emphasis is on California landscape and
seascape paintings. The artist depicts the California landscape in an
impressionist manner, with vibrant colors and dramatic settings of clouds
billowing over the landscape or seascape. If you could imagine where the art
of Cezanne, Van Gogh and Monet might have gone in the 20th century if
Picasso had not been born, the California landscape paintings of Zolita
Sverdlove represent a likely outcome.
Zolita Sverdlove has a long and acclaimed career as a fine artist. During
the past 25 years, living near Los Angeles and Pasadena, she has developed a
vision of the California landscape and seascape that she has imprinted upon
her many oil paintings and other art works. To her, the California landscape
is at once beautiful and eerie, and she expresses this dichotomy with
glowing colors and moody shadows. Looking northward from Pasadena, the
landscape shows the rugged San Gabriel mountains that she has depicted so
often in her landscape paintings. Looking southward from Pasadena, the
buildings of downtown Los Angeles loom in the distance, often with
opalescent skies above. This is a recurring theme in her landscape paintings
of Los Angeles. At the California coast, the colors change from the normal
blue and green to occasional wild colors at sunset, and her palette depicts
these in her California seascapes.
Many of the geographic and architectural landscapes in Los Angeles and the
San Gabriel Valley are just as compelling and attractive as medieval cities
that are visited by the public for their beauty and history. The artist has
executed landscape and seascape paintings that are parallels of many famous
cities. The towers of San Gimigiano are very similar to the buildings of
downtown Los Angeles silhouetted against the landscape of sky and hills. The
landscape of Pasadena in a storm reminds one of El Grecoıs landscape
painting ³View of Toledo.² The snow-capped mountains around Los Angeles have
similarities to the landscapes painted by Swiss and German romanticists.
Coming into modern times, the freeways and bridges express a unique modern
landscape of urban life. The landscape of night lights has been called a
queenıs necklace and this is a theme in her paintings. These modern urban
landscapes are just as visually compelling as the basis for paintings as the
cities and monuments of the past.
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California landscape painting - landscape painting and seascape painting, plein-aire paintings. Artist Z. Sverdlove's art gallery of oil paintings of subjects in and around San Gabriel Valley.
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