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The satisfying feeling that comes from a clear vista ... “I felt the need for an art which was more contemplative and possibly even in the nature of problem solving,” said #RichardDiebenkorn of his time painting representationally for a ten year period beginnings in the mid ‘50s. One can imagine sitting down in the single chair in the painting’s foreground and enjoying a solitary moment of contemplation on this #Sunday.
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Santa Cruz, 1962, oil on canvas, 24 3/4 x 32 1/8 in. (62.9 x 81.6 cm)
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#RichardDiebenkorn responded to his physical environment when painting. “The gradual rise of the Berkeley hills up from the bay has the effect of creating a natural amphitheater for optimal viewing of the surrounding landscape,” wrote Timothy Anglin Burgard of the artist’s surroundings during the 1950s and ‘60s. “The shimmering surface of the bay can assume an astounding spectrum of colors from blue to green to gray, or, alternatively, a silver or gold mirrorlike state at sunrise and sunset. The cyclical arrival and departure of the Bay Area’s distinctive fog creates disorienting spatial effects, as when a narrow strip of land is visible between the low-lying mist above and the bay below, creating a form of tripartite stratification.”
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First appearing in the artist’s work from Albuquerque, the tripartite division became a defining characteristic of both the abstract and figurative works Diebenkorn painted in Berkeley. While elements of his environment clearly affected his work, he did not paint en plein air, and none of the four studios he occupied in Berkeley had a view of the bay. Stay tuned later in the day to see how the artist used the tripartite division in a figurative painting.
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Berkeley #17, 1954, oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 53 1/4 in. (146.1 x 135.3 cm)
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Quote taken from the essay “The Nature of Abstraction” by Timothy Anglin Burgard in the exhibition catalogue Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966. Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2013
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Is that an Ocean Park painting in the background? Architectonic elements suggestive of Richard Diebenkorn’s seminal abstract series, spanning from the mid-1960s to the late ‘80s, began appearing in his figurative works several years prior.
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Our #DiebenkornDraws feature mixes it up this week with two representational works, one painting and one drawing, both with interior backgrounds evocative of the artist’s Ocean Park abstractions. We begin with the drawing: milky washes of gouache combine with pencil and charcoal lines, forming a woman seated on a stool whose surrounding environ seems to almost envelop her. “After I returned from Russia [in 1964],” the artist said, “the painting I did really flattened out, and so it was as if I was preparing to go back to abstract painting, though I didn’t know it.”
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Share your personal connections to the artist’s Ocean Park paintings by using the hashtag #MyDiebenkornMoment, and we’ll share thoughtful submissions on our feed in the days to follow!
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Untitled (Woman on Stool), 1965, gouache, graphite, and charcoal on paper, 12 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (31.1 x 30.2 cm)
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Quote taken from an interview with Susan Larsen, May 24, 1977, May 31, 1977, June 2, 1977, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, @archivesamerart
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The beauty lies in imperfection. “Years ago I learned that I couldn’t say about a painting, ‘Yes—this is it—that is what I’m after—except I’ve got to tidy up this area, unmuddy that, make another look decisive,’” said #Diebenkorn. “Following out these words I would find that the qualities that were to me rare and involved with the kind of meaning I wanted depended on every part of the whole I was responding to—the negative features, that is, awkwardness, mistakes, undeveloped parts, etc., as well as the positive ones. I think a realization can come about in the crudest terms as well as the most refined, in the most overworked terms as well as underworked, etc., and for me what looks like realization is such a rare, tenuous state that I take it where I find it.”
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Lose yourself in this opalescent #OceanPark drawing as the feature of our #DiebenkornDraws series this #Wednesday.
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Untitled, 1980, acrylic and graphite on paper, 17 1/2 x 12 in. (44.5 x 30.5 cm)
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Our #DiebenkornDraws series continues with a double-sided abstract delight circa 1949–55. The colorful drawings have only been exhibited once, in 2016 at gallery @VanDorenWaxter in New York. Of the exhibition Mark Lavatelli wrote, “These modest-sized works exemplify Diebenkorn’s approach: ‘...the unerring combination of painterly sophistication with awkward, unrefined areas that surprise, attract, and fascinate the eye.’ What at first might appear to be haphazardly applied shapes or unruly lines have been, in fact, carefully crafted to create dynamic compositions of astonishing variety.”
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Enjoy the rare opportunity to flip over the paper (by swiping left) and see what’s on the back.
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Untitled, c. 1949–55, watercolor and ink on paper, 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (28.3 x 19.1 cm), Collection of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, @diebenkornfoundation
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Quote taken from the essay “Awkward Beauty” by Mark Lavatelli in the exhibition catalogue Richard Diebenkorn: Early Color Abstractions 1949–1955. Published by Van Doren Waxter, 2016
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Spotted: another Ocean Park-esque background. #RichardDiebenkorn’s figures “compose and are composed by the rectangles that they inhabit, their poses both designing the paintings and being designed by them. As such, they deliver opposite meanings: the figure commands the space in which it is painted, the artist submitting himself to its presence; and the geometry of the pictorial space, which the artist commands, governs the posture of the figure.”
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A central figure with her head turned and hands in her lap sits here. There is a quiet, meditative mood to the composition that may be heightened by the soft blocks of color that form its background. Where is your Ocean Park moment? Share it with us by using the hashtag #MyDiebenkornMoment, and we may feature it on our feed.✨
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Seated Girl with Head Turned, 1958, oil on canvas, 20 5/8 x 14 1/2 in. (52.4 x 36.8 cm)
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Quote taken from the essay “Allusions to Ocean Park” by John Elderfield in the Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, 2016. .
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“A virtuoso drawer, Diebenkorn seamlessly moved from graphite to ballpoint, crayon to charcoal, pastel to gouache, conveying the momentary mood and physicality of the subject matter,” wrote Richard Ambrose. “For Diebenkorn, drawing was more of a verb than a noun, yet what an impressive visual statement he conveys in its very directness of transmission, be it impulse, feeling, perception or concept. He considered himself a painter and a drawer, and drawing was as much a principal medium for him as painting. He was confident in the knowledge that the work would not suffer in status as a result — painting and drawing were interchangeable.”
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Escape your #Wednesday, and bask under the dappled light of this serene outdoor scene. A woman with her back turned to us looks beyond our view. Coffee and a book sit before her. With quick gestures in crayon, #RichardDiebenkorn creates an environment in which to daydream.
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Untitled, c. 1958–66, crayon on paper, 13 7/8 x 17 in. (35.2 x 43.2 cm)
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Quote taken from the essay “Diebenkorn + Richmond” by Richard Ambrose in the exhibition catalogue Closely Considered: Diebenkorn in Berkeley. Published by the Richmond Art Center, @richmondartctr, 2014
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“Each work was for Diebenkorn an exploration of ‘rightness’: an attempt to set up problems, welcome mistakes, push through objections and self-doubt to come to a balanced resolution,” wrote Sarah C. Bancroft, @sarahcbancroft. “The compositions were built up through periods of activity in which erasures, revisions, accretions, reworkings, and ultimately hard-won resolutions would coalesce into balanced compositions. To describe the works formally, bit by bit, is almost to miss the point, to miss the totality of the self-contained system. To experience them—how they seep out slowly and reveal the artist’s intensive process and capture an emotive quality—is the real goal.”
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Here Diebenkorn balances his composition with interlocking arches, which ground the picture and create dimensionality. The work on paper was included in a 1990 exhibition on etchings of an overcoat, each etching becoming more abstract until the coat's silhouette is distilled to a central arch form. See the coat’s progression in our #DiebenkornDraws series from January 30.
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Untitled, 1989–91, acrylic, gouache, graphite, and pasted paper on paper, 38 x 24 1/2 in. (96.5 x 62.2 cm)
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Quote taken from the exhibition catalogue produced on occasion of “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series,” organized by the Orange County Museum of Art with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft. Catalogue published by the Orange County Museum of Art, 2011.
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Bright color. Blue sky. A light breeze. What else do you need on the #FirstDayofSpring? Two seated woman are shown here in leisurely conversation. Warm tones of purple, red, green, and ochre surround them, creating a light-hearted mood.
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Our #DiebenkornDraws series continues with two representational drawings, one in gouache as seen here and one in crayon, from the artist’s time in Berkeley. Evocative of #springtime, each elicits unique responses. The artist worked on paper independently of his paintings and to explore other ideas in a different scale. In the 1980s Diebenkorn wrote of his “need to do relatively small works, independent of others and complete in themselves. But a small canvas usually becomes for me an unfeasible miniature. Paper, however, I find is something else, lending itself to the different scale of the small size. It is almost as though if I can call my work a large drawing instead of a small canvas it becomes possible.”
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Untitled, c. 1964, gouache on paper, 12 1/2 x 15 in. (31.8 x 38.1 cm)
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