The 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...
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Dutch-born American painter who was one of the leading exponents of 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...
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Picasso's Pink Period 1904-1906 Willem de Kooning found a lot of inspiration for his paintings on works by other Painters, one of them being Picasso.
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