Diebenkorn artist biography
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&#;Very often if you go to the locale where an artist works, you&#;ll suddenly really know that you&#;re in the person&#;s area.&#; – Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn has been an influence on my work since art school. For me, he’s an entry point into a lineage in Western art that leads back to Cezanne, by way of Matisse. Diebenkorn advanced the visual conversation established by those artists, and offers us several pathways into the tradition – specifically through several abstract periods and a period of working representationally. Importantly, the motif in Diebenkorn’s artworks is secondary to the visual conversation in which he’s engaged. The recent Matisse / Diebenkorn exhibitionprovides exciting insight into these dimensions of his work.
Regardless of whether Diebenkorn is using abstraction, the human figure, still life, or landscape, it is the construction and visual structure of his compositions that excite his picture plane. One way to explore th
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Summary of Richard Diebenkorn
Question: what would an artist have to do to become famous and significant without being involved in the New York art world? Answer: paint like Richard Diebenkorn, the American painter who, through his seductive colors and surfaces and exquisite sense of balance between planes - and between figuration and abstraction - came to define the California school of Abstract Expressionism during the early s. Although he moved back and forth between making abstract and figural paintings throughout his career, his version of Abstract Expressionism became an important counterpart to the more well-known brand of the movement popularized bygd such New York artists as Jackson Pollock and Willem dem Kooning. During the s through the s he was noted for developing a unique form of Northern California realism, now referred to as the Bay Area Figurative School.
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Richard Diebenkorn
Artist Bio
In the late s and early 50s, Richard Diebenkorn emerged as one of the few successful abstract painters in the United States outside of New York City. Living in Berkeley, California, he developed a unique and respected form of abstract expressionism at a time when the style was gaining ascendancy. In , he unexpectedly switched back to representational painting, a style for which, like his abstract expressionist work, he would eventually gain recognition.
This representational style would interest Diebenkorn until , when he moved to Santa Monica, California. There, he would begin the famous Ocean Park series, which edified his status as a major artist. The works are not strictly abstract or representational but are usually seen as trafficking between the two concepts. On one hand, a viewer can sense the light, color, and even organization of the Santa Monica environment in which Diebenkorn painted the series. On the other hand, the sensat