Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922–93, American painter, b. Portland, Oreg. Raised in California, he studied and taught during the 1940s at the California School of Fine Arts, where his approach to color and composition was influenced by the abstract painters Clyfford Still Still, Clyfford, 1904–80, American painter, b. Grandin, N.Dak. Still was a pioneer in the use of the mural-sized canvas. He painted vast, thick curtains of intense color, jaggedly torn to reveal other equally intense color areas.
..... Click the link for more information. and Mark Rothko Rothko, Mark , 1903–70, American painter, b. Russia. Rothko emigrated to the United States in 1913. He was a student of Max Weber, then came under the influence of the surrealists.
..... Click the link for more information. . He turned away from abstraction in the 1950s, developing a style that continued to use the dramatic forms and vivid colors of abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
..... Click the link for more information. while portraying recognizable subjects—landscapes, portraits, interiors, and still lifes. Diebenkorn and David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, and other Bay area artists became recognized as a California school of figurative painting. In 1967, Diebenkorn began his best-known paintings, the Ocean Park series, serenely geometric, color-saturated works in which landscape elements are only barely discernible.

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See biography by G. Nordland (1987, repr. 1996); study by J. Livingston (1997).

Diebenkorn, Richard

(born April 22, 1922, Portland, Ore., U.S.—died March 30, 1993, Berkeley, Calif.) U.S. painter. After studying at Stanford University, he taught at California Institute of the Arts (1947–50), and there developed an abstract style under the influence of such painters as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko. By the mid 1950s he had achieved some commercial success but turned to an expressionistic figurative style. He produced accomplished figure drawings, still lifes, landscapes, and interiors in the Modernist tradition. Throughout his career he alternated between figuration and abstraction. His best-known works are the Ocean Park series, begun in the 1960s, comprising over 140 large abstract paintings that retain allusions to landscape.

Diebenkorn, Richard (Clifford, Jr.) (1922–93) painter; born in Portland, Ore. He studied at the University of California (1940–43), taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (1947–50), and lived in California from 1952. Influenced by Willem de Kooning, he began as an abstract painter and, later, became more representational, as in Man and Woman in Large Room (1957).

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