Study Visit: Diebenkorn

Join Sarah West on the 15 May at the Royal Academy of Arts. We will be looking at the work of Richard Diebenkorn, revered as one of the great post-war masters in his native United States.
Diebenkorn’s career is broadly divided into three phases as he takes us from abstraction to figuration and back again. This exhibition will present some of the most outstanding works from each period.
Diebenkorn’s seductive colour palettes and intricately balanced compositions draw from the light and a sense of the places in which he worked, and define a career that spanned more than four decades.
Listen to an extract from the audio guide to ‘Richard Diebenkorn’, in which Diebenkorn’s journey by plane over Albuquerque is explained as influencing his work of the period.

Following this exhibition we will make our way to Tate Modern to look at Making Traces where we can further discuss colour, the abstract, texture, energy etc.
To reserve your place please email enquiries@oca.ac.uk
 
Image Credits:
Featured:
Richard Diebenkorn,
Cityscape #1, 1963.
Oil on canvas. 153 x 128.3. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Purchased with funds from Trustees and friends in memory of Hector Escobosa, Brayton Wilbur, and J.D. Zellerbach. © 2014 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.
Other:
Richard Diebenkorn,
Ocean Park #27, 1970.
Oil on canvas. 254 x 203.2 cm. Brooklyn Museum. Gift of The Roebling Society and Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Blatt and Mr. and Mrs. William K. Jacobs, Jr., 72.4. © 2014 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.