Biography of richard diebenkorn

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. —Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn (–) produced, over a forty-five year span, a body of work whose beauty and mysteriously empathic nature has long attracted many devotees worldwide. He lived during the period of America’s great surge onto the world stage of visual art, working alongside the likes of Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Joan Mitchell, but forging a decisively independent style. While still in his twenties he moved briefly to New York from his native San Francisco region, realizing that its artistic climate was the most stimulating locus in the United States, but soon returned to California where, aside from two important early years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a year teaching in Urbana, Illinois, he remained.

From a glorious early flowering in the language of Abstract Expressionism, where he responded directly to the light and

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Richard Diebenkorn

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Artist Bio

In the late s and early 50s, Richard Diebenkorn emerged as one of the few successful sammanfattning 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 grabb, 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

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Richard Diebenkorn

American painter and printmaker

Richard Diebenkorn
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Born	()April 22, Portland, Oregon, US
Died	March 30, () (aged&#;70) Berkeley, California, US
Known&#;for	Painting
Movement	Bay Area Figurative Movement, abstract expressionism, Color Field painting, lyrical abstraction

Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, &#;– March 30, ) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the s and s. In the late s he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Art criticMichael Kimmelman described Diebenkorn as "one of the premier American painters of the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life.