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Richard Diebenkorn(1922-1993)American painter, best known for his intensely colored abstract paintings
based on California landscapes. Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon, and
raised in San Francisco, California. He studied art at Stanford University from
1940 to 1943 and then entered the California School of Fine Arts in Oakland,
California, in 1946. Two of the school's instructors, Clyfford Still and Mark
Rothko, had a significant influence on local artists, introducing them to the
East Coast movement of abstract expressionism. Diebenkorn's early abstractions,
with their emphasis on color and composition, show this influence. Diebenkorn
himself had joined the faculty by 1947, but in 1949 he left to study at the
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he received an M.F.A degree in
1951.
During the following two years, Diebenkorn spent brief periods at the
University of Illinois at Urbana and in New York City, where he made sufficient
connections in the art community to be included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum's 1954 exhibition, Younger American Painters. Diebenkorn returned to the
San Francisco Bay area in 1953 and began his Berkeley paintings, a large series
of semiabstract oil paintings based on local topography.
Diebenkorn began painting representational works about 1955. He became part
of a West Coast movement known as the Bay Area Figurative School, which
incorporated the expressive brushwork, innovative compositions, and vivid colors
characteristic of abstract expressionism into art that no longer excluded
recognizable subject matter.
After accepting a position at the University of California, Los Angeles, and
moving to Santa Monica, Diebenkorn returned to abstraction in 1967. He began his
most renowned series, Ocean Park, monumental, abstract meditations on the ocean,
sky, and land near his home, which occupied him for the rest of his life. ,
Diebenkorn divided large rectangular canvases into geometric planes of soft,
light-drenched colors. Multiple layers of lines and planes show through the
complex surfaces, creating an informal yet intense quality that defies the
simple geometry of the works.
Diebenkorn’s famous paintings include:
- A Day at the Races
- Berkeley No.1
- Berkeley No.32
- Berkeley No.52
- July
- Horizon-Ocean View
- Yellow Porch
- Still Life with Letter
- Studio Floor, Camelia
- Cityscape I
- Window
- Recollections of a Visit to Leningrad
- Ocean Park No.24
- Ocean Park No.27
- Ocean Park No.38
- Ocean Park No.43
- Ocean Park No.67
- Ocean Park No.133
- Albuquerque No. 3
- Ocean Park No.32
- Ocean Park No.107
- Ocean Park No.140
- Albuquerque No. 5
- Miller 22
- Albuquerque No. 9
- Urbana No.4
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