Diebenkorn in London

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estebanana

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Diebenkorn in London

There is a large Richard Diebenkorn show in London right now on until June 7th.
I wanted to point it out for any of you lucky dogs who happen to be in the London area.

An American painter who's work is well worth the trouble to get into the city to see the show.

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/richard-diebenkorn?gclid=CjwKEAjw96aqBRDNhM6MtJfE-wYSJADiMfgg1T3EaNlkii-Anl0Va_umZnz27j2G__HbpnRIPXcDsxoCOnXw_wcB

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/13/richard-diebenkorn-review-royal-academy-gorgeous-serious-hard-won

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Leñador

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RE: Diebenkorn in London (in reply to estebanana)

I now notice ocean park prints all over the Westside since you told me about him Stephen. You think there's any correlation between Santa Monica having a lot of Decco homes and the paintings (to me at least) having a Decco architecture feel?

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estebanana

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RE: Diebenkorn in London (in reply to estebanana)

Yeah every Real Estate office and and girls college dorm probably has an Ocean Park poster. The article in the Guardian even mentions that Diebenkorn OP posters are common.

I don't think his series really was derived directly from the influence of Deco design, but maybe a bit of that flavor leaked into the surface reading of the pictures now and then.

The Ocean Park paintings and drawings are an out growth of a deep and rigorous study of the space in paintings by other artists like Mondrian and Matisse, and lots of other factors. They are beautiful and accessible right from the start, but as you look and look they reveal a lot more. They look easy and pretty, but there's a lot of trial and error, erasing, painting over, changes, fixes. And he leaves it all out in the open to be read like a history of the paintings manufacture.

I think the light in these paintings really has local Southern California flavor and truth. But formally and structurally they are pinned together by his understanding of the best of 20th century abstract painting. I've always been impressed, awed by his work, but this think what is in the air now is a lot of people who were his detractors in the 1980's are coming back to realize that over time the best painting distinguishes itself and the other stuff falls away. The 'hard core' arty- farty people in the 1980s and 90's considered Diebenkorn to be "soft" and "easy" to comprehend, but the real truth is that his pictures are lush, beautiful, and carry uncommon discipline and rigor in how Diebenkorn thought them up.

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estebanana

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RE: Diebenkorn in London (in reply to estebanana)

If you have the patience to wade through the art historian speak, the Fine Arts Museums of SF did a series of videos of Diebenkorn scholars giving talks about his work. They go into fairly gritty depth about what he was looking at a how it got churned around in his work. Some of the ideas are a bit reaching, but overall the lectures are pretty good discussions.

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