i could not stop staring at the first painting. there is something so elusive to it, maybe all the negative space...i'm not sure but man. oh. man. i love his economy of strokes in the second one-so incredibly evocative. i want my essays and poems to be able to do that...
here are two quotes from the show that have got me thinking:
"The artwork is less like a noun and more like a verb…"
-Martin Facey
"Fast and slow come together in his work...the 'ineptitudes' or 'awkwardness' are retained...in order to avoid the slick and ingratiating. It is a redirection to avoid getting easy. Diebenkorn retains this stumbling."
-Wayne Thiebaud
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ohhhh... ohhhhh.
did i ever tell you the about the first time i saw a diebenkorn? i mean, really saw one, felt it. my watercolor professor was showing off a book of his collected works in class to demonstrate a wash technique, and after the lecture i was flipping through the pages so rapturously that he let me borrow his copy for the week.
i went home, stopped a painting, and cried.
sometimes you see something and feel it was what you were born to create or emulate, it rings with your cells so truly. such is diebenkorn for me, i guess.
thanks for sharing this, amy.
p.s. because we communicate by blog these days, i would have you know that i am staying up late for the second night in a row watching clips of my favorite korean soap from 2001 on youtube. go me!
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