Richard Diebenkorn: inside the show
By Amy Macpherson
Published on 14 April 2015
Take a look inside our Richard Diebenkorn exhibition in these short videos presented by the exhibition's curators.
In these short videos, the curators of Richard Diebenkorn give a mini introduction to each of the three main groups of works represented in the show.
Early abstract works
In the early 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was a dominant force in the US art world. Diebenkorn initially embraced abstraction, but his paintings were still imbued with a sense of place.
The Berkeley years
In the mid-1950s, Diebenkorn made a surprising change of direction - leaving behind abstraction to embrace figuration.
Ocean Park
The series of works for which he is perhaps best known, Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings mark "a glorious return to abstraction".
All works © 2015 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.
Richard Diebenkorn is in The Sackler Wing at the RA until 7 June 2015.
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