Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico

Here is a painter I have come to greatly admire, only to find out ten or so years after the fact, that he did his MFA at University of New Mexico - the very department where I just started out when I was a young lass. Geez, I've combed through his books so many times, those being mostly the ones when I'm wondering what to do next.



His New Mexico period (1950-1952) was when he started to remove the abstraction from his work and imply more representation. He used alot of heavy blacks and contrasts, one thing that is apparent in the New Mexico wintry lanscapes. It's arrid and it's stark and the sun is harsh even though it's freezing. You can see the difference in respect to his observation of light when you look at say, Berkeley no.52, 1955.



Lush... makes you want to use more green in your own work, am I right?

Thanks for letting me ramble on about one of my favorite painters of all time. Such a Master.