Richard Diebenkorn, (1923 –1993) Ocean Park No. 54, 1972
100 x 81 inches
Oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Richard Diebenkorn, although not under rated, is often taken less seriously because he chose to live in California. Diebenkorn was his own man. He embraced the abstraction of his American contemporaries. He steeped himself in the figurative tradition of Cézanne and Matisse. Under California's blue skies, he fused the two influences to create art unlike any other in the canon of modernity: anchored in geometry, saturated with color, sublime.
Richard Diebenkorn, although not under rated, is often taken less seriously because he chose to live in California. Diebenkorn was his own man. He embraced the abstraction of his American contemporaries. He steeped himself in the figurative tradition of Cézanne and Matisse. Under California's blue skies, he fused the two influences to create art unlike any other in the canon of modernity: anchored in geometry, saturated with color, sublime.