Richard Diebenkorn: inside the show

Richard Diebenkorn: inside the show

By Amy Macpherson

Published 15 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.

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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.

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The Berkeley years

In the mid-1950s, Diebenkorn made a surprising change of direction - leaving behind abstraction to embrace figuration.

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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.