One of the most significant artists of the Western United States, Richard Dibenkorn, was born in 1922 in Portland, Ore., but soon his family moved to San Francisco.
When admitted to Stanford University, he studied with Victor Artantoffa, who taught him krassicheskomu drawing, and Daniel Mendelovittsa, who opened for him works of Edward Hopper - The impact of this great artist is clearly traced in the earlier works Dibenkorna.
In the 1940's - early 1950's he worked in various places: New York, Woodstock, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Berkeley, California. At this time in his works, he was inspired by the late synthetic cubism that dominated the American art medium until abstract expressionism. But then he met with abstract landscapes of Willem de Kooning, under whose influence he developed his own style: in this era are his abstract landscapes of New Mexico (1949-50). At the same time he is interested in works of Rothko and Motherwell, as well as the Paris School.
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