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Benjamin was one of a group of artists in the city who in the 1950s began to work in a form of eye-popping hard-edge abstraction. At the J. Paul Getty Museum © Karl Benjamin, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts ### John Divola, Zuma #25, 1978/2006  Divola made the "Zuma" series over a period of two years in the late '70s. It consists of views of the Pacific as seen through the windows of an abandoned beach house that became more dilapidated and scarred in each succeeding picture. (Divola did some of the damage and graffiti-streaking himself.) The result is a kind of metaphor for L.A. itself, a crumbling work of civilization framing an eternal dream of natural beauty. At the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ### Richard Neutra, Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, Calif., 1946  In the realm of domestic architecture, Southern Californian tastes were often ahead of the more tradition-bound Eastern seaboard. The warm climate made it possible for a handful of advanced architects to design homes that were truly open to the elements — a longtime dream of European Modernists. The same Edgar Kaufmann who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build Fallingwater asked the Austrian emigré Richard Neutra to make him the light-filled glass-and-steel winter home captured in the above voluptuous picture by the great architectural photographer Julius Shulman.At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art © J. Paul Getty Trust / Julius Shulman Photography Archive ### Ken Price, BG Red, 1963  Price was part of the tight-knit community of Los Angeles ceramics artists, centered on Peter Voulkos, who moved from producing bowls and vases to making enigmatic works of ceramic sculpture like this one. At the J. Paul Getty Museum Courtesy Ken Price Studio ### Judy Chicago, Car Hood, 1964  L.A. artists frequently adapted manufacturing techniques from SoCal industries like surfboard, aircraft and motorcycle production. To learn how to produce this work, made with sprayed acrylic lacquer on the hood of a Chevrolet Corvair, the artist Judy Gerowitz — later known as Judy Chicago — enrolled in an eight-week course at an auto-body school. At the J. Paul Getty Museum © Judy Chicago, 1964 ### Vija Celmins, Freeway, 1966  Celmins is a Latvian emigré who moved to L.A. in the early '60s. Her haunting oil "landscape," made in a year when the U.S.'s freeways were still relatively new, positions you behind a windshield so that you view things the way the locals do — as drive-by urban scenery. The horizons seem unlimited but also faintly unnerving, a mood emphasized by that heavy truck up ahead. At the J. Paul Getty Museum © Vija Celmins ### John Riddle, Ghetto Merchant, 1966  The work of African-American artists in Los Angeles often had a political subtext. The principal element of Riddle's welded-steel-assemblage sculpture is the melted remains of a cash register dug from the embers of the 1965 Watts riots. At the Hammer Museum Courtesy of Claude and Ann Booker ### David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967  Hockney arrived in L.A. from London in 1963\. As he observed later, with just a bit of exaggeration, at the time, "there were no paintings of Los Angeles." He would make them, with images like this one, which celebrates swimming-pool culture while also constructing an art-world in-joke, contrasting ultracool color-field painting (those flat blue panels of sky and water) with the hyperkinetic brushwork of Abstract Expressionism (the splash), a style that color field and other forms of minimalism supplanted. At the J. Paul Getty Museum © David Hockney ### John Outterbridge, No Time for Jivin’, 1969  Assemblage, the art of joining together found objects or fragments, was an important practice in L.A., particularly among black artists like Outterbridge. This work is part of what he called his "Containment Series," addressing states of psychological pressure and confinement. At the Hammer Museum Mills College Art Museum Collection ### Ed Ruscha, The Back of Hollywood, 1977  As a way to play with the idea of subject in a picture, Ruscha began making paintings of words in the '60s. (As he once said, "I still paint in oil paint, but what I'm interested in is illustrating ideas.") A favorite was the word Hollywood, spelled out by the famous sign, seen here in cinemascopic proportions — but from behind, to thwart a too easy understanding. 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