Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "Richard Probert placed his easel at a metaphysical Hollywood focal point - the Mulholland Drive bridge over the 101 Freeway. He's been a plein air painter for thirty years. "A painter's job is to make it look like what you see," he said, "then make it more so." I thought he'd actually made it less so. Richard had taken out the dominant features of the current Cahuenga Pass: the ten-lane freeway, the gouged hillsides, the roads, cars, houses, power lines, trash, litter, and tangles of invasive non-native plants. This wasn't painting. This was time travel."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Express highways--California, Southern Artists' materials--California--Los Angeles Painters--California--Los Angeles Bridges--California--Los Angeles Artists--California--Los Angeles Painting--Technique Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) United States Highway 101 Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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