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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 15 December 2006 à 21:45In 1986 when asked by his friend and Artist Robert Dash, how was he doing. De Kooning replied " I'm doing fine, i'm still working for the same company." De kooning past away on the 19th of March in his house in New york east Hampton at the age of 93. I'm Happy to have studied the work of...
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 12 December 2006 à 13:45...Whose Name Was Writ in Water, 1975 A lot of de koonings work at the end of the 70's, could have been inspired from the late work of Claude Monet.
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 12 December 2006 à 13:34De "Clam Diggers" 1972
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 10 December 2006 à 17:10cross-legged figure, 1972
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 5 December 2006 à 15:05In this sketch for Pink Angels, De kooning used Organic forms of flat beaten re-fragmented and added characters, with which he reacted to European Surrealism. The New York School of the forties was very influenced by members of the Surrealistic movement like Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy, among others...
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 28 November 2006 à 23:01b. 1904, Rotterdam; d. 1997, East Hampton, New York Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904, in Rotterdam. From 1916 to 1925, he studied at night at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, while apprenticed to a commercial-art and decorating firm and...
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 28 November 2006 à 15:09...he organic forms and black contours in Elegy reminds us of paintings by Joan Mirò and also works by de Kooning's friend Arshile Gorky. The painting was first shown in 1943. At the exposition Twentieth Century Paintings in gallery Bignou in New York, were it was bought by the Art Collector Helena...
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Written by MMaxi in Willem de Kooning on 26 November 2006 à 01:11...Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as Action painting . During the 1930s and '40s de Kooning worked simultaneously in figurative and abstract modes, but by about 1945 these two tendencies seemed to fuse. The series Woman IVI caused a sensation with its violent imagery and...