Studio note
Datec. 1966–76
Current owner
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
RD numberRDFA.214
Description
Transcription:
I would like the colors, their shapes, and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered. A premeditated scheme or system is out of the question.
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Search for a [strikethrough] right kind of [/strikethrough] mutation [strikethrough] that follows sensibly [/strikethrough] in a sequence [strikethrough] of moves [/strikethrough] that is sensible, inevitable, perhaps predictable. One is enough.
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The mutation too is sensible and inevitable but it is so in violation of the system of forces that called it up.
I would like the colors, their shapes, and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered. A premeditated scheme or system is out of the question.
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Search for a [strikethrough] right kind of [/strikethrough] mutation [strikethrough] that follows sensibly [/strikethrough] in a sequence [strikethrough] of moves [/strikethrough] that is sensible, inevitable, perhaps predictable. One is enough.
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The mutation too is sensible and inevitable but it is so in violation of the system of forces that called it up.
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c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76