Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 4

Jian Wang
Summer Memory in Laguna Beach #4

2016

$29,000
£22,270.75
€25,522.01
CA$40,824.84
A$45,732.84
CHF 23,830.98
MX$557,846.26
NOK 302,837.08
SEK 285,553.78
DKK 190,489.28

About the Item

If Jian Wang is to claim a style, it lies in his approach to painting. Distinguished by his ability to reconfigure the elements of a composition to his own vision, he virtually sculpts the image using energetic brush strokes and thick, buttery oil paint. “My style involves tremendous physicality and emotion,” he says. “I have a simple palette of eight colors, which I combine right on the canvas. I’m careful with my gestures; I carry many colors in a single brush stroke.” His work, influenced significantly by realism with an impressionist inference, is influenced both by the landscape and by contemporary artists such as Fred Dalkey, Wayne Thiebaud and Oliver Jackson. “Every single painting is 90 percent experiment and 10 percent of what I’ve learned,” he says. “I cannot guarantee that every painting will turn out, because I don’t want to set up that much control. I have great admiration for historical painters who developed a style and yet, each piece remains individual.” Long before he came to the United States to pursue of Masters of Fine Arts at California State University, Jian Wang dreamed of a life of painting. A child of the Cultural Revolution in China, he experienced limited opportunities for painting and exhibition, which led him to pursue the field of engineering. And yet, he did not lack background or training in art. Upon arrival in America, his work already exhibited a serious investment in the western conventions of drawing and painting. What he lacked, was the venue this country could provide.
  • Creator:
    Jian Wang (American, Chinese)
  • Creation Year:
    2016
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Laguna Beach, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: WAN0609C1stDibs: LU49012168302

More From This Seller

View All
Summer Memory in Laguna Beach #7
By Jian Wang
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed by the artist. For over 20 years Jian Wang has been serving bountiful helpings of color to audiences in the form of abstracted landscapes rendered in both paint and pastel. ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Summer In Rancho Santa Fe
By Jian Wang
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
For over 20 years Jian Wang has been serving bountiful helpings of color to audiences in the form of abstracted landscapes and still lifes rendered in oil paint. Deep orange, emerald...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Laguna Rocks
By Jim Lamb
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Immersing himself in majestic surroundings is part of Jim Lamb’s daily routine, whether it’s the rolling hills California or its pacific coast beaches. Capturing the beauty of the natural world is his every day reality. An award-winning participant in the selective Northwest Rendezvous group of painters, Jim Lamb is also a regular participant in a number of prestigious California invitational shows, including the Laguna Beach plein air painting...
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

American River in Spring
By Jian Wang
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
For over 20 years Jian Wang has been serving bountiful helpings of color to audiences in the form of abstracted landscapes and still lifes rendered in oil paint. Deep orange, emerald...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Afternoon on Aliso Creek
By Jim Lamb
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
For over 20 years Jim Lamb has been serving bountiful helpings of color to audiences in the form of classic California scenery. Whether they are the vibrant oranges of California Poppies, the emerald greens of the coastal pacific coves...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Laguna Fog
By Jim Lamb
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Immersing himself in majestic surroundings is part of Jim Lamb’s daily routine, whether it’s Washington’s Cascade Mountains or California’s pacific Coast beaches. Capturing the beauty of the natural world is his every day reality. Lamb is an award-winning participant in the selective Northwest Rendezvous group of painters. He is also a regular participant in a number of well known California shows, including the Laguna Beach plein air painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

You May Also Like

Breaking Surf-original contemporary impressionism figurative seascape painting
By Michael Alford
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Breaking Surf" by Michael Alford is a captivating original fi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Zuma Beach #2, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By John Kilduff
Located in Yardley, PA
Plein air oil painting of beachgoers on Zuma Beach in Malibu, California. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Laguna Beach. California 3., Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Iryna Kastsova
Located in Yardley, PA
Laguna Beach. California 3. Seascape: blue ocean, waves, water, sunny beach, palm trees, flowers, sunny day, romance, impressionism, realism, painting, sea voyage, sky, sunny Califor...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"California Beach" By Sparky LeBold, Pacific Ocean Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"California Beach" by Sparky LeBold (US and Portugal based) is a beautiful handmade oil painting that depicts a view of the Pacific Ocean on a stormy evening. ARTIST STATEMENT Spa...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Bagno Paradiso" Landscape, Impressionism, Beach
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein-air in Italy, "Bagno Paradiso" depicts a group of figures sitting beneath a striped umbrella. Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. He received his earliest art instruction from his grandfather, Henry Cooke White (1861-1952) and his father Nelson Cooke White (1900-1989), both important American artists. The family lived in Waterford, Connecticut and the elder White had been an early member of the art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Known for his paintings of the Connecticut landscape and shoreline, Henry Cooke White became a teacher to his son, Nelson Cooke White. Living with his parents at the Florence Griswold house in Old Lyme, he met some of the most important and influential artists of the day, Childe Hassam, Will Howe Foote and Harry Hoffman. Later, Nelson White's father began to take his family to summer on Shelter Island and became friendly with many of the artists of the Peconic colony such as Irving Wiles, an important American impressionist. After graduating from the Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts in 1951, Nelson H. White began to study at Mitchell College in Connecticut but left to pursue studies in the violin, musical theory and composition. At this time, he began to spend more time studying art with his father and grandfather. By 1955, Nelson H. White had decided to devote himself to a career as a painter and traveled to Florence, Italy to become an apprentice to Pietro Annigoni, the world-renowned Florentine master. Within two years, the young White had won two awards for his work. While in Florence he also studied with the great Italian teacher, Nerina Simi. Today, White divides his time between the United States and Florence. Although he has received instruction from some very important artists, White's work is highly individual. He paints with great spirit. Upon seeing his work one quickly senses White’s great love for nature and the outdoors. Through his eyes we are able to view and interpret nature in an intimate manner. Whether Nelson H. White is painting the Connecticut shore...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Modern Impressionist Beach Scene
Located in Milford, NH
A panoramic modern impressionist beach scene by American artist Jennett Brinsmade Lam (1911-1985). Lam was born in Ansonia, Connecticut, studied with Josef Albers at Yale University,...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil