Reviving a Lost Art: Gallery Displays Students’ Traditional Paintings

Renae Wang, an MFA graduate at Laguna College of Art and Design, said her paintings are based in non-places, or public and transient spaces and feature an “underlying solitude,” with characters in her paintings not interacting with each other. Jack Bradley/The Epoch Times

Graduates of the Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) presented their final culminating artworks during a July 1 exhibition.

LCAD is one of the few art schools in the country that transmits the type of classical painting that great artists of yesteryear knew: the fundamental skills of traditional realism art. Other art schools often heavily focus on contemporary and abstract art.