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Willem de Kooning | |||
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1904 in Rotterdam, Netherlands Died 1997 in New York, NY |
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| Untitled, 1977 | ||||
| oil
and enamel paints, charcoal on canvas 60 x 48 inches Courtesy of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust L99:WTK1.1 |
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| Like Jackson Pollock and
Franz Kline, de Kooning was one of the central figures of the gesture
painters of Abstract Expressionism. Here is a classic example from de
Kooning’s body of work. Note his focus on the figure of woman, which
he studied on and off for his entire career, combined with the gestural
passages of richly colored paint. De Kooning’s favored pinks, yellows,
and blues are all demonstrated in this painting. |
