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Cityscape I

Richard Diebenkorn

Cityscape I

Richard Diebenkorn
  • Date: 1963
  • Style: Expressionism
  • Genre: cityscape
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, US
  • Dimensions: 153 x 128.3 cm
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Diebenkorn painted this suburban California street in 1963 when he moved away from making abstract work and returned to a more representational style, having become a leading figure of the Bay Area Figurative School. Cityscape I suggests that Diebenkorn's essentially abstract, signature style, comprised of large planes of bright color executed with expressive brushwork and plotted within a grid-like plane, extends even to his imagistic work. The planes - both the densely-packed planes of the buildings at the left as well as the larger, more open landscape planes at the right - stack up vertically to assert the flat surface of the picture and create its abstract design. Although at one level the painting is clearly a cityscape or landscape, at another level the viewer can cordon off almost any rectangular part of the picture to enjoy an almost totally abstract painting in miniature.

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Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape #1, 1963 · SFMOMA: www.sfmoma.org
Richard Diebenkorn Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story: www.theartstory.org
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