As was mentioned in yesterday's blogpost we visited the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento on Sunday December 3rd. I was especially happy that we would see the Richard Diebenkorn exhibit entitled "Beginnings, 1942-1955".
Richard
Diebenkorn was an American painter. His early work is associated with
abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s
and 1960s. His later work were instrumental to his achievement of
worldwide acclaim. Wikipedia
Died: March 30, 1993, Berkeley Calfornia
Movement: Bay Area Figurative Movement, abstract expressionism, Color Field painting, lyrical abstraction
Influenced by: Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, Edward Hopper, David Park, Clyfford Still, Ashile Gorky
In the late 1960's Richard Diebenkorn taught painting classes at UCLA. While still an undergraduate Pictorial Arts major I was fortunate to have taken a painting class with him. He remains to this day one of my favorite American artists.
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