High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The California Plein-Air Revival is an art movement that began in the 1980s and its artists were inspired by the revival of interest in the works of the California Plein-Air School of 1900–1940. Many of the painters in this movement of landscape artists were either students of, or were influenced by, the Russian-born painter Sergei Bongart (1918–1985) or one of the two remaining active artists of the original Plein-Air School, Theodore N. Lukits (1897–1992) and Ray Stanford Strong (1905–2006), all three of whom emphasized working out of doors, directly from nature. Group exhibitions by several commercial galleries, the formation of a number of different artists organizations and the revival of the California Art Club all played a role in spreading the artistic philosophy and stylistic influences of the Early California painters and creating a commercial marketplace for artists who were part of the same tradition.