BY tradition, artists slog painfully through a conventional academic training, then belligerently break the rules to arrive at a more expressive, personal style. This week Manhattan's Poindexter Gallery shows the work of a painter who reversed the procedure. Brought up in the new academy of abstraction, where anything goes, California's Richard Diebenkorn painstakingly traced his steps back from abstraction through nature to man as art's subject.
Rangy ex-Marine Diebenkorn. 35, is a Berkeley painter whose style was formed by the influence of Abstractionists Clyfford Still, David Park and Mark Rothko at San Francisco's...
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