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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / VANESSA ROTHE FINE ART
11 /12-12/ 30 Laguna Beach, CA11
Nicolas Martin, Man on
the Rodin Staircase, oil
on linen, 18 x 24"
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Adrienne Stein, The
Painted Cape, oil on
mounted linen, 36 x 26"Art Nouveau
V
anessa Rothe, artist, curator and
gallery owner at Vanessa Rothe Fine
Art, founded the historically significant
art project Americans in Paris “to inspire
many of the most important contempo-
rary artists in America who specialize in
realism and impressionism to travel to
Paris together and discover alluring, new
subjects for their works of art.” Now in its
sixth year, Americans in Paris shows how
these contemporary artists follow in the
footsteps of John Singer Sargent, Mary
Cassatt, Guy Rose and more who did the
same years before.
This year’s Americans in Paris will have
the theme “Art Nouveau” where invited
artists were inspired by the greats such as
Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt and Egon
Schiele as well as the Jugendstil period
in Germany and France. The show will be
on view November 12 through December30 at Vanessa Rothe Fine Art in Laguna
Beach, California, and there will be a final
catalog featuring all the artwork.
Explaining the “Art Nouveau” theme,
Rothe says, “With a motif of ‘rebirth’ and
‘a return to nature,’ this exhibit directly
reflects the shifting paradigm of our world
today as we emerge from the pandemic. The
art nouveau movement was born during a
time when the world became industrialized
and hardline. This genre of art symbolized
the return to the soft, round and feminine
aspects of nature and was characterized by
the use of long, organic lines. The style of art
nouveau was often portrayed in architecture,
interior design, jewelry, glass design and
those illustrious posters that have become
an iconic staple of the genre.”
She continues, “According to scholars,
art nouveau was ‘aimed at modernizing
design...where artists could draw inspira-tion from organic and geometric forms.’ It
was also known as the second Renaissance,
touching on many forms of art: ceramic,
glass, architecture, illustration and of course
oil painting. The genre often resembles
elegant floral and stem patterns of nature’s
effortless ethereal beauty. It is an important
era in art that launches the early California
Impressionist Craftsman periods.”
Among the artists selected to participate
in Americans in Paris are Quang Ho, Jeremy
Lipking, Casey Baugh, Dan McCaw, Danny
McCaw, Casey Childs, Vincent Xeus, Scott
Burdick, Susan Lyon, Michelle Dunaway,
Kyle Ma, Adrian Gottlieb, Bryan Mark
Taylor, Karen Offutt and more.
C.W. Mundy’s painting Monet’s Lily
Pond, Giverny was an opportunity for the
artist to connect with the great impres-
sionist master. Mundy says, “Having
studied Claude Monet’s work for years and