Still Life Richard Diebenkorn Paintings

A highly influential mid century american artist richard diebenkorn is known for his abstract landscape paintings in particular the ocean park series which he exhibited when representing america at the 1978 venice biennale diebenkorn s work is often highly gestural and layered his use of the medium comparable to that of contemporaries like the abstract expressionist willem de kooning.

Still life richard diebenkorn paintings.

Still life with emotion. Richard clifford diebenkorn jr. When he was two years old his father who was a hotel supply sales executive relocated the family to san francisco. A highly influential mid century american artist richard diebenkorn is known for his abstract landscape paintings in particular the ocean park series which he exhibited when representing america at the 1978 venice biennale diebenkorn s work is often highly gestural and layered his use of the medium comparable to that of contemporaries like the abstract expressionist willem de kooning.

His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the bay area figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966 he moved. In his introduction to this book sonoma painter chester arnold describes diebenkorn s landscapes and still lifes as achievements radiant with human reflection and the gravity of knowing as well as a summons to pay attention to the everyday and a reminder of the rewards. This becomes a kind of still life situation bechtle said in a 2001 archives of american art oral.

Although well established as an abstract painter diebenkorn returned to figuration in the mid 1950s. Richard diebenkorn april 22 1922 march 30 1993 was an american painter. Although diebenkorn s paintings differ vastly from bechtle s. He incorporated the dominant expressive painting style into representational canvases often landscapes.

Diebenkorn attended lowell high school from 1937 40 and entered stanford university in 1940. It is one of the first paintings diebenkorn made when taking cues from his close friends and fellow artists david park and elmer bischoff he turned his attention from the abstract. Still life with orange peel was created in c 1955 by richard diebenkorn in expressionism style. Throughout his career richard diebenkorn 1922 1993 produced still lifes and landscapes in a range of media.

Was born in april 1922 in portland oregon. In developing the checklist for the matisse diebenkorn exhibition my co curator katy rothkopf of the baltimore museum of art and i were eager to include richard diebenkorn s still life with orange peel 1955.