Talk:California Impressionism

Article needs rewrite
This article is in need of a rewrite or some serious editing. It repeats the same topics (California Plein-Air Revival) again and again but written four different times by different authors.

I am willing to give a shot at cleaning this up, but I am not expert, just a hobby collector of California impressionists, which is what led me to this page.

ausman (talk) 00:27, 30 Sep 2021 (UTC)

Untitled
I am working on a project to augment the very short and/or non-existent entries on the subject of California Impressionism, the largest Plein-Air painting movement in history. Initially I will be putting in references at the end of the article which will be numbered only after I have written more. Don't despair, lots of references to be added, this is a very well researched subject.
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 *  Giftiger Wunsch    [TALK]  23:44, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

References section
Please note that it's standard practice to have a single references section, and to include the code or in it to automatically list inline citations, added next to the appropriate sections wrapped in tags. Many articles have hundreds of references but only a single section; if you use the cite templates it will be neater regardless.  Giftiger Wunsch    [TALK]  00:04, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Article title change
California Plein-Air Painting → California Impressionism – Proposing this be retitled California Impressionism, which is well supported by scholarship, and is a recognized sub-section within American Impressionism. Lede will require rewriting, but not difficult. JNW (talk) 12:14, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts czar   &middot;   &middot;  18:32, 24 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Support change...Modernist (talk) 21:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Support change...Bus stop (talk) 22:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Support change, as the original proposer. Better term, in that it suggests reference to the most important painters of this genre, from the early 20th century; in much the same way that French Impressionism is preferable to 'French Plein Air Painting'. JNW (talk) 02:19, 24 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment. I don't have input (right now), but the request should have stayed open for well over 24 hours (usually a week) for others to have a say, if they so choose. czar   &middot;   &middot;  18:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Whichever title this goes by, I'm crystallizing what's problematic about this article, besides the poor sourcing, original research and non-neutral passages. Museum shows and publications use California Impressionism and California Plein Air Painting to refer to the movement that ended in 1930, ; I'm not convinced that either term is appropriate for later and contemporary painters, and wonder if adding them isn't piggybacking on an art history term designating another era. I think 'Plein Air Revival' constitutes original research, as I've noted here . The first reference (which I'm about to remove) is to an unpublished manuscript; perhaps it referred to this . I've been suspecting conflict of interest, and while that's another matter, it would help to explain some of this. JNW (talk) 23:50, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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