Bay Area Figurative Movement

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20th-century art movement American art movement art movement

The Bay Area Figurative Movement was a mid-20th-century California art movement in which painters, including Richard Diebenkorn, shifted from Abstract Expressionism back to representational and figurative imagery while retaining expressive, painterly techniques.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Bay Area Figurative Movement canonical	4
Bay Area Figurative Painting	1
Bay Area Figurative School	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	20th-century art movement ⓘ American art movement ⓘ art movement ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ surface form: Bay Area Figurative Painting Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ surface form: Bay Area Figurative School
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	1960s ⓘ
field	painting ⓘ
followed	Abstract expressionism ⓘ surface form: Abstract Expressionism
hasArtisticStyle	Abstract expressionism ⓘ surface form: Abstract Expressionism figurative art ⓘ
hasCenter	California College of Arts and Crafts ⓘ California School of Fine Arts ⓘ California School of Fine Arts ⓘ surface form: San Francisco Art Institute University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
hasParticipant	Bruce McGaw ⓘ David Park ⓘ Elmer Bischoff ⓘ Frank Lobdell ⓘ Henry Villierme ⓘ James Weeks ⓘ Joan Brown ⓘ Manuel Neri ⓘ Nathan Oliveira ⓘ Paul Wonner ⓘ Richard Diebenkorn ⓘ Roland Petersen ⓘ Theophilus Brown ⓘ Wayne Thiebaud ⓘ William Theophilus Brown ⓘ
influenced	contemporary figurative painting ⓘ
influencedBy	Abstract expressionism ⓘ surface form: Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism ⓘ surface form: American Abstract Expressionism Modernism ⓘ surface form: European modernism French painting ⓘ Henri Matisse ⓘ Pablo Picasso ⓘ
locatedIn	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
movementCharacteristic	combination of abstraction and figuration ⓘ emphasis on color ⓘ emphasis on light ⓘ focus on everyday scenes ⓘ focus on the human figure ⓘ painterly surface ⓘ return to representational imagery ⓘ use of expressive brushwork ⓘ
region	West Coast of the United States ⓘ
startTime	1950s ⓘ
typicalSubject	interiors ⓘ landscapes ⓘ portraits ⓘ still lifes ⓘ urban scenes ⓘ

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Richard Diebenkorn → movement → Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ

Wayne Thiebaud → movement → Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ

Bay Area Figurative Movement → alsoKnownAs → Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bay Area Figurative School

Bay Area Figurative Movement → alsoKnownAs → Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bay Area Figurative Painting

Berkeley series → movement → Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ

Bay Area Figurative painters → movement → Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ