29 april 2014

Richard Diebenkorn #3

Richard Diebenkorn, 1956. (bron: Artist and Studio)


Richard Diebenkorn in his studio, 1968. (bron: CRSAforum)

Richard Diebenkorn in his studio in Santa Monica, ca. 1970–71. (bron: Artist and Studio, foto: Richard Grant)


Richard Diebenkorn in front of “Ocean Park #59” at his studio at Ashland and Main in Santa Monica in 1972. (bron: Artist and Studio)


Richard Diebenkorn in 1982.

"....
Main Street, running through the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, is two blocks from the Pacific Ocean. The thoroughfare hums with cars, young families pushing strollers, aging hippies and fancy coffee machines.

Walk a bit, and you'll pass shops, restaurants and beach-y bungalows that can sell for $1 million or more. The Ocean Park you see in 2012 is very different from what it was in 1967, when Richard Diebenkorn began painting his Ocean Park series.

"This was a derelict area," says Kimberly Davis, who directs the L.A. Louver Gallery in nearby Venice Beach. Diebenkorn visited the L.A. Louver every week when he worked in Ocean Park. "There were a lot of artists living there," Davis says.

The reason there were so many artists was that rent was cheap — really cheap. They were living on the edge here. Ocean Park was literally at the edge of the country, but it was also on the edge of the edge of Los Angeles, and painters could afford to live here.

Diebenkorn's first Ocean Park studio, where he began making the big, gently colored, geometric canvases of his series, was on Ashland Avenue. Then he moved to 2448 Main St., where he built his studio. On the outside of the building hangs a plaque: R.D. Studio 1975 to 1988.
...." (bron: npr)

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