De kooning paintings

A leading artist among the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning never believed that abstraction and representation were mutually exclusive. As he stated: “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.” Woman and Bicycle, one of a series of…

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One of my favorite Abstract Expressionism artists is Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning has some great artwork and deserves his artistic legacy.

Willem de Kooning. A Tree in Naples. 1960. Oil on canvas. 6' 8 1/4" x 70 1/8" (203.7 x 178.1 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. 622.1967. © 2024 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting and Sculpture

Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto.

The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

kooning January 1st, 1956 glenstone

De Kooning in his studio, with a bottle of safflower oil and bowls of paint on his worktable, 1971. Photo Dan Budnik.

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