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Willem De Kooning
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Willem De Kooning
Analysis of Willem de Kooning's artistic career. Places this Dutch-American artist as a key figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Also discusses his emphasis on the human figure.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
4 sources |
1990
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" Willem de Kooning is a Dutch-American painter who was born in 1904 at Rotterdam and who first studied art in Amsterdam. He later studied under the avant-garde artist Bernard Romein. He came to the United States in 1926, and his work at the time was conservative and traditional. He soon joined the circle of Arshile Gorky and other artists prominent in the abstract expressionist movement. Under that influence, de Kooning started to experiment in advanced techniques of abstraction derived from Kandinsky and the late Cubism of Picasso.In the 1930s, de Kooning painted in several manners at the same time. He produced portraits and figure studies seemed to suggest the late works of Giacometti. De Kooning stands out from his contemporaries by being the only one to make the human figure, first male and then female, a central theme of his work..."
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