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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.
Willem de Kooning (; 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.
De Kooning became known as an “artist’s artist” among his peers in New York and then gained critical acclaim in 1948 with his first one-man exhibition held at Charles Egan Gallery, at the age of forty-four.
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.
- American
- April 24, 1904
- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- March 19, 1997
Willem de Kooning (born April 24, 1904, Rotterdam, Netherlands—died March 19, 1997, East Hampton, New York, U.S.) was a Dutch-born American painter who was one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as Action painting.
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Willem de Kooning: Abstraction, Representation, and Reinvention. “What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have fate.”. So declared Willem de Kooning (American, born The Netherlands, 1904–1997), an and representation.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American painter who was one of the leading proponents of abstract expressionism.
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