California Impressionism

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American art movement art movement regional art movement

California Impressionism is an early 20th-century regional art movement in which painters depicted the California landscape with vibrant color and loose, light-filled brushwork influenced by French Impressionism.

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All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
California Impressionism canonical 16
American West Coast art 1
California Impressionist painters 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American art movement ⓘ
art movement ⓘ
regional art movement ⓘ
associatedInstitution California Art Club ⓘ
Laguna Beach Art Association ⓘ
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form: Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
developedInContextOf American Impressionism ⓘ
focusesOn atmospheric conditions ⓘ
effects of sunlight ⓘ
hasCharacteristic light-filled brushwork ⓘ
loose brushwork ⓘ
plein air painting ⓘ
vibrant color ⓘ
influencedBy Impressionism ⓘ
surface form: French Impressionism

Impressionism ⓘ
mainRegion California, United States ⓘ
surface form: California
movementAlsoKnownAs California Impressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: California Plein-Air Painting

California Impressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: California plein air school
movementEndTime mid 20th century ⓘ
movementStartTime circa 1900s ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ
notableArtist Anna Hills ⓘ
Armin Hansen ⓘ
E. Charlton Fortune ⓘ
Edgar Payne ⓘ
Franz A. Bischoff ⓘ
Granville Redmond ⓘ
Guy Rose ⓘ
Hanson Puthuff ⓘ
Jack Wilkinson Smith ⓘ
Maurice Braun ⓘ
Selden Connor Gile ⓘ
William Wendt ⓘ
notableArtistGroup The Ten (California group around Selden Gile) ⓘ
notableCenter Laguna Beach ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
Monterey Bay region ⓘ
surface form: Monterey Peninsula

San Diego ⓘ
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
paintingTechnique broken color ⓘ
visible brushstrokes ⓘ
relatedMovement American Impressionism ⓘ
Plein air painting ⓘ
Tonalism ⓘ
typicalSubject North American deserts ⓘ
surface form: California deserts

California landscape ⓘ
California mountains ⓘ
California urban scenes ⓘ
California valleys ⓘ
coastlines of California ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: California Impressionism
Description of subject: California Impressionism is an early 20th-century regional art movement in which painters depicted the California landscape with vibrant color and loose, light-filled brushwork influenced by French Impressionism.

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Crocker Art Museum → hasCollectionStrength → California Impressionism ⓘ
California Impressionism → movementAlsoKnownAs → California Impressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: California Plein-Air Painting
California Impressionism → movementAlsoKnownAs → California Impressionism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: California plein air school
Anna Hills → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
The Ten (California group around Selden Gile) → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: West Coast Impressionism
The Ten (California group around Selden Gile) → influenced → California Impressionism ⓘ
Laguna Beach Art Association → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Laguna Beach Art Association → associatedWith → California Impressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: California plein-air painters
California Art Club → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
E. Charlton Fortune → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Granville Redmond → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Armin Hansen → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Armin Hansen → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: California art movement
Edgar Payne → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Guy Rose → partOf → California Impressionism ⓘ
Guy Rose → associatedWith → California Impressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: American West Coast art
Selden Connor Gile → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Jack Wilkinson Smith → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Hanson Puthuff → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Hanson Puthuff → associatedWith → California Impressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: California Impressionist painters
William Wendt → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
William Wendt → influenced → California Impressionism ⓘ
this entity surface form: California plein air painters
Maurice Braun → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ
Franz A. Bischoff → movement → California Impressionism ⓘ