Search results
Mar 19, 1997 · His paintings of women feature a unique blend of gestural abstraction and figuration. Heavily influenced by the Cubism of Picasso, de Kooning became a master at ambiguously blending figure and ground in his pictures while dismembering, re-assembling, and distorting his figures in the process.
De Kooning was born in the Netherlands, but active primarily in the United States. He was a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. His style strongly influenced art after World War II.
Willem de Kooning ( / də ˈkuːnɪŋ /; [2] Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. [3] In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried .
Mar 27, 2014 · Willem de Kooning (1904--1997) was a towering figure of Abstract Expressionism. In this film, curator Judith Zilczer, shares her insight into de Kooning and the work that led her to contribute...
The picture in question was Willem de Kooning’s Woman, I (1950–52). Though it was one of a series of six oil-on-canvas paintings centered upon a single female figure that de Kooning had worked on from 1950 to 1953, Woman, I received the most attention.
De Kooning’s dramatic rise to prominence between 1948 and 1953 was only the first act in a remarkable artistic career. While many of his contemporaries developed a mature “signature style,” de Kooning’s inquisitive spirit did not allow such constraint.
First retrospective exhibition, “de Kooning: 1935 – 1953,” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (traveled to Workshop Art Center, Washington, D.C.). Robert Rauschenberg requested and received a drawing from de Kooning to erase, now known as Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).
