Celebrated as one of California’s most prominent contemporary realist painters, David Ligare’s art began as a celebration of nature and evolved into an examination of life through landscape. For over forty years, Ligare has masterfully integrated eternal ideals, contemporary sensibilities, and gracefully balanced imagery that seeks to resurrect the deep satisfactions that man has always sought and found from aesthetics and novelty.  

Drawing inspiration from Greco-Roman philosophers of old like Plato, Aristotle, and the more recent, Nietzsche, Ligare’s work can be seen as a quest for a classical ideal of visual perfection. Through his masterful integration of eternal ideals and contemporary sensibilities, Forms of Influence seeks to explore our powerful and consuming historical hunger for connections with the past and the world today.   

David Ligare is an American contemporary realist painter who brings to classicism a thoroughly modern reverence for nature, social diversity, cultural traditions, ideals of beauty, knowledge, and myth through which resides keys to finding meaning and significance in human life. Through his masterful integration of eternal ideals and contemporary sensibilities, Ligare's restrained, and gracefully balanced imagery resurrects the deep satisfactions that man has always sought and found from aesthetic and novelty. His paintings exist simultaneously at the pinnacle of beauty and the fundament of classical knowledge and eternal truth. They help to satisfy our powerful and consuming historical hunger for connections with the past and the world today.

Forms and Philosophy with David Ligare

Saturday, April 20
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
FREE to Members
$20 Non-Members | $10 Students/Seniors

Join David Ligare as he discusses his painterly approach to Classicism—reverence for simplicity, structure, proportion, and clarity—and a modern reverence for nature, social diversity, cultural traditions, ideals of beauty, knowledge, and myth through which he finds the essence of humanity.