Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park Paintings

In 1940 diebenkorn entered stanford university where he met his first two artistic mentors professor and muralist victor arnautoff who guided diebenkorn in classical.

Richard diebenkorn ocean park paintings.

Nearly 80 of those works created between 1967 and 1988 are on display at the orange. Diebenkorn s seductive surfaces and exquisite sense of balance was a mix of figuration and abstraction that came to define the california school of abex. Was born on april 22 1922 in portland oregon his family moved to san francisco california when he was two years old from the age of four or five he was continually drawing. Each canvas is meant to be episodic of a day in the life of the artist.

Like the impressionist painters who also worked in series diebenkorn based his 140 ocean park paintings on the changing atmospheric effects and conditions that he perceived. His family moved to san francisco california when he was two years old. Ocean park 1968 1985 17 genres abstract 52 cityscape 4 genre painting 1 interior 8 landscape 5 nude painting nu 1 portrait 12. His later work best known as the ocean park paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.

Celebrated as brilliant compositions of colour and paint the ocean park paintings are both loose and structured both moody and bright. Richard clifford diebenkorn jr. The buck collection at the uci institute and museum for california art 1 the eli and edythe l. Richard clifford diebenkorn jr.

Find the latest shows biography and artworks for sale by richard diebenkorn. Was born on april 22 1922 in portland oregon. A highly influential mid century american artist richard diebenkorn is known skip to main content. There is elegance in the design and palette of this painting that only comes of being a mature painter.

Over the course of more than 20 years richard diebenkorn created 145 paintings for his ocean park series. Broad collection los angeles 1 university of arizona museum of art tucson 1. Miller 22 richard diebenkorn 1951 22 albuquerque richard diebenkorn.