Richard Diebenkorn

Personal Details Name Richard Diebenkorn Place of Birth Portland, Oregon Date of Birth April 22, 1922 Date of Death March 30, 1993 (aged 70) Movement Bay Area Figurative Movement, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction Field Painting Nationality American Influenced by Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Clifford Still, Arshile Gorky, Henri Matisse

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He lived in Berkeley, California from 1955 to 1966. By the mid-1950s Diebenkorn had become an important figurative painter, in a style that bridged Henri Matisse with abstract expressionism. Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Henry Villierme, David Park, James Weeks, and others participated in a renaissance of figurative painting, dubbed the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

In the fall 1964 through the spring 1965 Diebenkorn traveled through Europe and he was granted a cultural visa to visit and view Henri Matisse paintings in important Soviet museums. When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

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