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Collaborative Class project: Into Abstraction with Richard Diebenkorn


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EAST COAST Abstract Expressionist school
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Willem de Kooning


 Robert Motherwell

Jackson Pollock

Franz Kline

Arshile Gorky

Mark Rothko

others...

 WEST COAST BAY AREA FIGURATIVE PAINTERS
Richard Diebenkorn
Nathan Oliveria
David Park
Elmer Bischoff
Rex Ashlock
Wayne Thiebaud
James Weeks
Glenn Wessels

 Richard Diebenkorn 
American
April 22, 1922 > March 30, 1993
Early works were associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement 1950's > 1960's
Later works included the Ocean Park paintings, returning to vertical abstraction.





















Student Selection 
Collaborative Painting
Richard Diebenkorn
Woman on a Porch 1958

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