Cityscape by Richard Diebekorn

Richard Diebenkorn seems to take the role as a reporter.  With the subject matter revolving around landscapes and places,  the content doesn’t express an overt feeling or emotion but seems to report the world from a bird’s eye view.  From an audience stand point, the works appears to be aerial views of cityscapes and beach views.  The artist describes the world abstractly but the subject matter is recognizable.  His descriptive type of line is the implied line with large geometric, planar shapes.  Regarding his major works, one could infer a sense of public spaces.  His landscapes and beach paintings seems to be areas of open space and not private.  A connection between the different forms of color or mass in his works is inferred.  The implied line is used to express a relationship with the different forms, and this seems to allow the audience to get a sense of an close relationship between the view and the viewer.  He would seem to be an activist but I don’t think this is the case.  His color scheme is complementary but the complementary color is separated with a white hue(for his landscapes and figurative art) to eliminate a strong contrast.