richard diebenkorn

If I had the big bucks and a room big enough to hang it on the wall -
I would ask the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art if they would
consider selling me Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park No. 54 (1972.)

Now I don't know why Debra Mancoff has insisted on giving the dimensions
of this really cool painting in cm  - 254 x 205.7 - but it sounds big to me
folks.

and -

~it's Abstract

~it's done completely in geometrical shapes

~the colors are soothing - mostly light blue

~yet in the upper righthand corner there is a rectangle
that is deep red

~and a few golds but not metallic

~and there is one very long and very thin rectangle
that is done in a sort of dark but not too dark green -
makes me think of moss really


Mancott tells us right off that Richard Diebenkorn 'composed his paintings
in response to his surroundings, from the sun-bleached deserts of New
Mexico to the luminous convergence of land and water on the southern
California coast.'

Now I've never been to New Mexico - or even California for that matter - but
I like this painting.

And if California can inspire Richard Diebenkorn to paint something as nice
as Ocean Park No. 54 - and in Abstract - then maybe I could paint something
nice in Abstract if I were to live in California too.





but what are the chances of that happening?






folks





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