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5 de abr. de 2019 · On April 5, 1959, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah snapped this iconic photo of Willem de Kooning on the stoop of 88 East 10th Street, his home and studio from 1952 to 1959. De Kooning lived and worked here during some of his most productive years as an artist, and when he and his contemporaries on East 10th Street were having the most profound impact upon New York City and the broader ...
18 de sept. de 2011 · Exhibition. Sep 18, 2011–Jan 9, 2012. This is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades, beginning ...
13 de mar. de 2024 · After years of cajoling, in 1966 Willem de Kooning agreed to a retrospective of his work. He had resisted for many years, telling one reporter, ‘They treat an artist like a sausage, tie him up at both ends, and stamp on the center “Museum of Modern Art”, as if you’re dead and they own you’.1 De Kooning’s vivid description exposes a fear and anxiety about the canonisation of artists ...
Willem de Kooning: Abstraction, Representation, and Reinvention “What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have fate.” So declared Willem de Kooning (American, born The Netherlands, 1904–1997), an Abstract Expressionist artist, celebrated for his exuberant paintings and vivid compositions, in which he often merged abstraction and ...
Willem de Kooning (Róterdam, 24 de abril de 1904 - Long Island, 19 de marzo de 1997) fue un pintor neerlandés nacionalizado estadounidense, exponente en los años posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial del expresionismo abstracto, y dentro del seno de esta tendencia, de la action painting o pintura gestual —pintores de este movimiento fueron Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko y Clyfford Still ...
4 de mar. de 2019 · De Kooning’s eclectic, experimental approach to painting wasn’t always admired by his peers. “No single image represents his style or characterizes his career as do, for example, the poured paintings of Jackson Pollock and the abstracted topographies of Clyfford Still,” Lake explained in Willem de Kooning: The Artist’s Materials (2010).
Willem de Kooning was a renowned American-Dutch painter that helped form the Abstract Expressionist movement. View Willem de Kooning’s 3,430 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, paintings, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.
