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...RICHARD DIEBENKORN: WORKS ON PAPER, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Some 180 works -- more than one-third of them never before publicly exhibited -- by a contemporary master in his first comprehensive show of drawings. Through...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
...least remarkable quality of Diebenkorn's graphic work is the formal constancy that runs below its variations of subject and diction. You detect its exterior sign in a steadiness of mood. There are not many emotional ups and downs in Diebenkorn's work, although he certainly does not feign his calm. He finds the world too enjoyable to be detached from it. Life in Southern California (and a durably happy marriage, now in its 46th year) has had the same kind of stabilizing effect on Diebenkorn that the Cote d'Azur did on his great mentor, the subject...
...figure drawings nothing is sentimental or overwrought. Naked or dressed, their model -- commonly his wife Phyllis -- inscribes herself on one's view without ceremony. Her poses seem fallen into, not directed, as natural and unaffected as could be. But what holds one's eye is the resolution Diebenkorn finds in the architecture of the body: the way a transverse arm cuts across the gourdlike shape of hips, the thrust of a shin redefining the space around it, the clear slicing of light into dark and profile into void. Diebenkorn's line learned its decisiveness in front of the model...
...Diebenkorn sees drawing as a chain of events in which none of the links are hidden and every image carries the record of its own making, false starts and fresh turns included. It isn't so much a matter of spontaneity as of truth to the record. Painting covers the traces, drawing exposes them. So it is, especially, with the Ocean Parks, whose preliminary drawings in gouache and collage go right to the edge of being paintings in their own right; it is just that in a work like Untitled (Ocean Park), 1984, you see more of the process...