Artwork Description:
Encounters Restaurant and bar is readily recognizable by any visitor to Los Angeles. the UFO shaped building opened in 1961, and is an example of the Mid-Century modern influenced design school known as "Googie" or "Populuxe." This rendition, steeped in impressionism, has a smooth background redolent of a high quality lithograph, contrasted by the foreground which is comprised of heavy paint strokes applied solely with a metal palette.