Distance: 5 miles - quite a bit faster
Yesterday's entry on Diebenkorn's paintings touching on the essential unknowability of others (and oneself?) put me in mind of a few more paintings.
Richard Diebenkorn, ? probably @ 1959
David Park, Standing Couple, 1958
David Park was Diebenkorn's best friend. The two men plus Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud and James Weeks comprised the First Generation of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Henri Matisse, Conversation 1909
And then we have the master. Diebenkorn early acknowledged that he was highly influenced by Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning and especially Matisse. This was before his 1964 trip to Russia where he was able view the incomparable collections of Matisses at the Pushkin and The Hermitage. His reaction was to be stunned, to say "I know nothing about painting," and to work feverishly for many months producing painting after painting in Matisse's style with Matisse's imagery as homage to him and to learn from the great master.
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