"Night Square" - Willem De Kooning

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"Willem de Kooning's Night Square (1949) is a work with a minimal use of color, a nearly black-and-white image produced by enamel on cardboard on composition board. It is an example of de Kooning's post-war style, seen as a gradual, logical, steady development. The work is a reflection of his experiments with a new kind of drawing, seen first in a series of black-and-white abstractions exhibited in his first one-man show in 1948. They are not really drawings because the black-on-white or white-on-black shapes, however thin, act as pictorial forces, meaning there are no lines. There are also no backgrounds and no foregrounds, for the blacks and whites push in front of and slip up behind one another:

Everything moves at a uniform velocity; the material has a consistent body. There is an extraordinary lucidity--and ambiguity. It is as if two philosophers were having.."

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