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| | Art/Museums: Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Diebenkorn is such a synthesist, and his late work, beginning with his famous "Ocean Park" series of vertical, geometric abstractions of magnificent color and subtle reworking, transcends much of the art that so strongly influenced him: that of Edward Hopper, Paul Cezanne, Piet Mondrian, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Henri Matisse. |
 | | At the California School of Fine Arts, Diebenkorn was befriended by David Park, an artist and teacher who was wary of some New York artists' "egocentrism" that he found a bit implicit in "The Doctrine of Action Painting" and Abstract Expressionism. |
 | | The paintings have a sturdily synthetic character, as though blocks of color and texture were being moved around and built upon one another, sometimes directly abutting, sometimes separated by masking-like strips
.The result is a picture trying to look like an enormous montage, the painting seemingly sectioned out, cut, and reassembled on the surface. |
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