"Diebenkorn painted this suburban California street in 1963, when he moved away from making abstract work and returned to a more representational style, becoming a leading figure of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Cityscape I suggests that Diebenkorn's essentially abstract, signature style, comprised of large planes of bright color plotted within a grid-like plane, extends even to his figural work." (theartstory.org)
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