{"id":1047,"date":"2012-02-23T17:07:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2012-02-23T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:08:41","slug":"diebenkorn-pulls-and-pauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Diebenkorn – (Pulls, Pauses and Integration)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Diebenkorn - Woman with Newspaper - 122 x 86 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

This painting by Diebenkorn has an excellent example of what I like to term a pull, which is a shape, value or colour pulling<\/em> the viewer from the focus of the composition.\u00a0 Master artists are very aware of the viewer’s perusal, and how to guide the eye away from the focus without competing.\u00a0 This is not easily accomplished and it takes time before you find what works for you.<\/p>\n

Diebenkorn masterfully takes us from the focus of the girl’s head to the black coffee, which is beautifully supported with the similar values below.\u00a0 I hope you can feel the pull as it should not be obvious.\u00a0 If it’s too strong we would have competition which in Diebenkorn’s hands, has been superbly avoided.<\/p>\n

This is orchestration and good artists resist formula. The continuity, or style, comes from knowledge combined with intuition and of course experience.<\/p>\n

Now there is a great pause(which is not as strong as a pull) on the newspaper in the shape of a “U”, gently taking you from the coffee.\u00a0 Can you see the path?\u00a0 He guides us from her hair, to the cup, to the “U”, (where you pause)<\/em>, and then back to her head.\u00a0 There are other avenues to guide us as well, which I hope you enjoy discovering and appreciating.<\/p>\n

I must also mention how the figure is beautifully integrated with the background at her left shoulder.\u00a0 Do you see how the white shape curls up to connect to her hair?\u00a0 And I love that black line leading in and forming her knuckles.\u00a0 Great integration.\u00a0 What a painter!<\/p>\n

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