Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. (April 22, 1922 - March 30, 1993) was a well-known 20th century American painter.

Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon; his family moved to San Francisco, California when he was two. In 1940, Diebenkorn entered Stanford University.

He lived in Berkeley, California from 1955 to 1967 and painted and drew in a representational style. At the time, Abstract Expressionism had captured attention in New York, and brought the focus of painting over to the US from France. Painting on the West Coast, however, retained independence from New York. Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David Park, and later, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, and Nathan Oliveira retained an interest in the figurative.

His most famous paintings, the "Ocean Park" series of works, were began in 1967 and developed over twenty years in over 140 paintings. They were aerial landscape abstracts named after a community in Santa Monica, California, where he had moved to teach at UCLA.

He died in Berkeley

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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