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Studio note
Studio note

Studio note

Date:
c. 1956–59
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
RD number:
RDFA.225
Description
Transcription:


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A head that to me is realized can summon up a whole [strikethrough] painting [/strikethrough] environment—a whole painting. Not so much by way of association but [strikethrough] just [/strikethrough] in the urgency it brings to the canvas. I don’t attempt to rationalize why it has to be a head and I don’t know why this head becomes for one foolish reason or another painted out later. But then the environment I’ve found summons up the


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new head and figure. All this is of course a much messier process than can be described fraught with much error, accident and corrections.


have respect for the possibilities of abst-exism

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