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Diebenkorn--A Different Drummer |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Stephen May |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,451 Words, 15,958 Characters |
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Richard Diebenkorn, one of the premier American painters of the post-World War II era, produced a body of work so varied and idiosyncratic that it risks being overlooked by falling between stylistic cracks. "I seem to have to do it elaborately wrong and with many conceits first," he once wrote about his art. "Then maybe I can attack and deflate my pomposity and arrive at something straight and simple."
The perceptiveness of that observation was reflected in a career marked by sudden turns and reinventions, whether the artist was painting spontaneous abstractions, representational landscapes, figures, interiors, still lifes, or the epochal abstract Ocean Park series of his final years. The Art of Richard Diebenkorn, a retrospective of more than 150 works that is the largest exhibition of...
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...hensive display of the full range of his oeuvre--from abstraction to figuration and back to abstraction--is bound to solidify his high standing with critics and the public alike. As Whitney director David Ross put it, "Diebenkorn emerges at the century's end as an artist who restored to late modernism the sense of the sublime that seemed to fade with each successive decade after World War II."
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