Bay area figurative movement

The San Francisco Bay Area artists were generally Abstract Expressionists until a small group of artists redefined the figure and its concept, an idea linking them together as the Bay Area Figurative artists. After World War II, artists in New York assembled in bars, restaurants, or different studios, the art dealers controlling most of their careers.

Six Approaches to Abstracting the Figure Workshop with Melinda CootsonaFriday-Sunday, February 16-18, 2018 | 10am-3pm | Skill Level: IntermediateClass Fee: $550 All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable This three-day workshop will look at six different approaches to abstracting figurative work. This will include Abstraction Within the Form, Flattening, Pattern and Collage, Exaggeration • Distortion, Cropping, Fractured • Deconstructed. Slide presentations of some…

Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) Coffee, 1956

Berggruen Gallery specializes in the exhibition and sale of 20th-century American and European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and limited edition prints.

Acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn’s masterpiece “Horizon-Ocean View” is on public display in the University of Montana Office of the President reception area in Main Hall through May 24. The painting

Berggruen Gallery specializes in the exhibition and sale of 20th-century American and European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and limited edition prints.

A look at the dramatic shift of David Park, an abstract painter who became one of the founders of the Bay Area Figurative Art Movement.

SFMOMA turns 75 this month. We’ve just published a new (and very beautiful) collection catalog, 75 Years of Looking Forward, highlighting, as the curators of The Anniversary Show and the catalog, Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, write, both “the inarguably significant and the admittedly idiosyncratic” of the museum’s collecting, exhibiting, and presenting history. […]

Berggruen Gallery specializes in the exhibition and sale of 20th-century American and European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and limited edition prints.

Richard Diebenkorn