Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park #116
1979
oil and charcoal on canvas
208 x 182 cm
Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park #27
1970
oil and charcoal on canvas
254 x 202 cm
Richard Diebenkorn
Window
1967
oil and graphite on canvas
234 × 203 cm
As an art-student, I accidentally got introduced to the work of Richard Diebenkorn. For no other reason then the colors of the book’s cover, I picked it up.
I was struck by the work of Diebenkorn immediately. Composition, the use of colors, brushstrokes, layering, clarity and how they all combined have such a strong reference to landscape without depicting it. Diebenkorn himself said about his work; "my paintings are abstractions that do not reject the world, but contain it, in a concentrated form." To this day I study his work and it continues to fascinate me how the work is both crystal clear and elusive at the same time.
Stijn Kriele, 2021
Stijn Kriele
Zonder titel
2017
monotype, collage, pasted on paper
100 x 140 cm
Stijn Kriele
Zonder titel
2021
monotype, collage, pasted on dibond
24 x 23 cm
