{"id":1043,"date":"2012-02-26T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2012-02-26T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T17:27:43","slug":"diebenkorn-integration-rhythm-pulls-and-pauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Diebenkorn – (Integration, Rhythm, Pulls and Pauses)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Richard Diebenkorn - Girl with Flowered Background - 1962 - 103 x 52 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

How Diebenkorn integrated the figure with the Matisse like rhythm of the background is beautifully considered.\u00a0 Let’s begin with the horizontal black shape at the left of the painting and how it sweeps up and integrates with the blue shadow, through the red shape, then with her hair.\u00a0 The sweep also connects to the delightfully assessed black shape above her right shoulder, which brings the eye to the blue stripe on her blouse, very impressive.\u00a0 We then automatically follow the red stripe which not only integrates with her hair, but when you follow it down from her right shoulder you will eventually connect to the stem of the small flower above her left shoulder, which then joins with a white shape connecting us to the horizontal division of the painting.\u00a0 Very sophisticated.<\/p>\n

There are two wonderful pulls permitting us to leave the focus of her hair and move through the painting.\u00a0 I’m referring to the beautifully balanced black shape at the bottom and the other one at the right edge of the painting.\u00a0 Remember, these are meant to be felt more than noticed and pulls relate through closeness in either value or colour.<\/p>\n

The centres of the flowers provide a beautiful subtle horizontal rhythm supporting the division in the composition and gently relieving us from the strength of her black hair.\u00a0 Do you find your gaze moving to the dots when you focus on her?\u00a0 As I said these considerations are not meant to be obvious.\u00a0 They are invitations to a visual dance.<\/p>\n

I must also mention the fantastic blue shadow which Diebenkorn painted as a shape.\u00a0 We see a master permitting preceding masters to influence his work.\u00a0 We can all join this great tradition, whether we paint or love to engage through cultivated study.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Diebenkorn integrated the figure with the Matisse like rhythm of the background is beautifully considered.\u00a0 Let’s begin with the horizontal black shape at the left of the painting and how it sweeps up and integrates with the blue shadow, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3,10,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}