Shine the spotlight on the man himself and you realize that, in the annals of postwar American-art history, Diebenkorn holds a curious spot. While the big-name artists of his era were centered squarely on the East Coast, with the likes of Rothko and Pollock making waves in New York, Oregon-born Diebenkorn planted himself across the country in California. When Abstract Expressionism was all the rage in the Fifties, he moved from abstraction to figuration. And when the pendulum swung back — putting figuration back in vogue with Pop Art in the Sixties — Diebenkorn forged his own path again, and returned to abstraction. “If you don’t assume a rigid historical mission,” he once said, “you have infinitely more freedom.” Discover the full narrative of his brilliant life and career in Richard Diebenkorn, the show and the book.
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