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Richard Diebenkorn

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 and Mark Rothko. He turned away from abstraction in the 1950s, developing a style that continued to use the dramatic forms and vivid colors of abstract expressionism 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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