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Born 1949 Guangdon, China. Known for: Plein-air landscape and marine painting.
Creating illuminated, dramatic California landscapes, W Jason Situ is fascinated by the special light of his subject matter. He lives in El Monte, California, and says he has been much influenced by... Read full biography
Creating illuminated, dramatic California landscapes, W Jason Situ is fascinated by the special light of his subject matter. He lives in El Monte, California, and says he has been much influenced by the French Impressionists. He was born in Guangdon, in southern China, and was raised on a farm.... Read full biography
Creating illuminated, dramatic California landscapes, W Jason Situ is fascinated by the special light of his subject matter. He lives in El Monte, California, and says he has been much influenced by the French Impressionists. He was born in Guangdon, in southern China, and was raised on a farm. During the Cultural Revolution, when schools closed, he began painting and studied art informally with friends, including Mian Situ. He also painted en plein air with local artists. After the turbulent... Read full biography
Creating illuminated, dramatic California landscapes, W Jason Situ is fascinated by the special light of his subject matter. He lives in El Monte, California, and says he has been much influenced by the French Impressionists. He was born in Guangdon, in southern China, and was raised on a farm. During the Cultural Revolution, when schools closed, he began painting and studied art informally with friends, including Mian Situ. He also painted en plein air with local artists. After the turbulent political period calmed, he studied at the Guangzhous Fine Arts Institute in China and then became an art teacher at his former high school. He came to the United States in 1989, and settled in Los Angeles where he copied European paintings for a... Read full biography
Creating illuminated, dramatic California landscapes, W Jason Situ is fascinated by the special light of his subject matter. He lives in El Monte, California, and says he has been much influenced by the French Impressionists. He was born in Guangdon, in southern China, and was raised on a farm. During the Cultural Revolution, when schools closed, he began painting and studied art informally with friends, including Mian Situ. He also painted en plein air with local artists. After the turbulent political period calmed, he studied at the Guangzhous Fine Arts Institute in China and then became an art teacher at his former high school. He came to the United States in 1989, and settled in Los Angeles where he copied European paintings for a gallery, drew tourist portraits in Chinatown and painted T-shirts. He is a member of the Cal... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Realism/Semi Impressionism
Art Subject
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
- •Spanish Missions, California
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •China
- •Monterey, Carmel California
Art Association
- •California Art Club-
- •Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Art School
- •Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts, China-Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
- •Chinese
Exhibition of Art Association
- •California Art Club
- •Laguna Plein Air Painters Association-
- •Oil Painters of America-