Global InformationDavid Ligare information
David Ligare | |
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| Born | 1945 Oak Park, Illinois, United States |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Style | Classicism, realism |
| Partner | Gary Smith |
| Website | David Ligare |
David Ligare (born 1945) is a California-based representational painter of landscape, figurative and still life works.[1][2][3] His paintings employ formal principles and ideas from Greco-Roman art and Classical history painting in the service of philosophical contemplations of contemporary existence.[4][2][5] He has sometimes been characterized as a photorealist, however, many critics reject that categorization. They identify an uncanny, timeless element in his work focused on moral concerns, the past and idealized subjects rather than the reproduction of photographic reality, which belies the photorealist label.[6][7][8][9] Critic Donald Kuspit termed Ligare's paintings "covertly abstract as well as overtly realistic, and thus peculiarly surreal. Formally beautiful as well as insightfully true to appearances, and responsible to the cultural heritage of Classical antiquity, they fuse modernism and traditionalism."[6]
Ligare's work belongs to the public collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art,[10] de Young Museum,[11] San Jose Museum of Art,[12] and Smithsonian American Art Museum.[13] He has appeared in surveys at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),[14] Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,[15] National Museum in Gdansk (Poland)[16] and National Pinakothiki (Athens, Greece),[17] and had solo exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum,[18] Georgia Museum of Art,[19] Monterey Museum of Art[20] and Laguna Art Museum, among other venues.[21]
He has lived in the Monterey region of California since the late 1960s and is based in the Carmel Valley.[22][23]
- ^ Pagel, David. "Country Escapes: David Ligare," Los Angeles Times, November 20, 1998. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ a b Wilson, William. "The Shock of the Old: Four Figure Artists Who've Revolted Against the Modern and Returned to Traditional Forms," Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1988. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Nisbet, James. "History Painting after Conceptual Art," in What Was History Painting and What Is It Now?, Mark Salber Phillips and Jordan Bear (eds), McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, p. 182–201.
- ^ Knight, Christopher. "Order and Clarity: David Ligare," Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2000. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Holliday, Peter J. American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ a b Kuspit, Donald. "Singular Perfection: David Ligare's Figuration," in David Ligare: California Classicist, Scott A. Shields, David Stuart Rodes and Patricia A. Junker, Winterbourne, Berkshire, UK, Papadakis/Crocker Art Museum, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
- ^ Geer, Suvan. "La Cienaga Area: David Ligare," Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1988. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Johnson, Eric. "David Ligare's paintings come from the world where beauty was invented," Monterey County Week, February 9, 2006. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Shields, Scott A. "David Ligare and Recurrent Classicism," in David Ligare: California Classicist, Scott A. Shields, David Stuart Rodes and Patricia A. Junker, Winterbourne, Berkshire, UK, Papadakis/Crocker Art Museum, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
- ^ Museum of Modern Art. David Ligare, Artists. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ de Young Museum. Xenia (Still Life with Grape Juice and Sandwiches), David Ligare, Artworks. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ San Jose Museum of Art. David Ligare, Objects. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum. Sand Drawing #3, David Ligare, Artwork. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Janss, Glenn C. and Henry Hopkins. American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Glueck, Grace. "When Today's Artists Raid the Past," The New York Times, July 21, 1985, p. 29. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Kuspit, Donald. New Old Masters, Gdansk, Poland: National Museum, Gdansk, 2006.
- ^ Rose, Barbara. American Painting 1900–1982, Athens, Greece: National Pinakothiki, 1982.
- ^ Crocker Art Museum. "David Ligare, California Classicist," Exhibitions. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Georgia Museum of Art. "David Ligare, California Classicist," Exhibit. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ Ryce, Walter. "Painter David Ligare is a revered iconoclast in the art world and, again, at home," Monterrey County Weekly, November 14, 2013. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Laguna Art Museum. David Ligare: California Classicist, Exhibitions, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- ^ Bamsey, Ben. "David Ligare," Eklektx, April 6, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ Popęda Agata. "A visit to painter David Ligare's Drapery series serves as an appetizer for exhibits to come," Monterrey County Weekly, July 6, 2023. Retrieved November 1, 2023.