Richard Diebenkorn

I came across Richard Dieberkorn’s work some months ago, I was instantly drawn by one of his paintings.

Cityscape #1

1963

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02mdmqd/p02mdjt5

Why his work is interesting to me

The simplified composition, the visible changes in the saturation of colours, and how the landscape evolves in the distance. All of these elements create a certain attraction that invites you to enter the painting, and the gaze follows the pavement until reaching the top of the small hill at the back. When looking at it, somehow, I feel the tension between the foreground and background, and the painting seems to bend across the street intersection at the top.

Other work that I find interesting

I am mostly interested in his landscape / cytiscape works. These are other paintings I’ve found on the Internet.

Seawall

1957

https://www.irequireart.com/blog/tumblr_mrn20ojhi11rychmko1_1280/

Freeway and Aqueduct

1957

http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/features/klein/klein10-29-7.asp