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. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the bay area figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Was born in april 1922 in portland oregon. Throughout his career richard diebenkorn 1922 1993 produced still lifes and landscapes in a range of media.

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. Still life with orange peel was created in c 1955 by richard diebenkorn in expressionism style. Richard diebenkorn april 22 1922 march 30 1993 was an american painter.

In 1966 he moved. 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. 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. Richard clifford diebenkorn jr.

Diebenkorn attended lowell high school from 1937 40 and entered stanford university in 1940. He incorporated the dominant expressive painting style into representational canvases often landscapes. 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. When he was two years old his father who was a hotel supply sales executive relocated the family to san francisco.

Richard diebenkorn grew up in san francisco and attended stanford university and later the california school of fine arts now the san francisco art institute. His later work best known as the ocean park paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.