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19 de mar. de 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 (; 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 an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.
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.
De Kooning once summarized the history of female representations as “the idol, the Venus, the nude.” In Woman, I, he both alludes to and subverts such conventions, while possibly referencing the long-held societal ambivalence between reverence for and fear of the feminine.
Willem de Kooning (Róterdam, 24 de abril de 1904 - Long Island, 19 de marzo de 1997) fue un pintor neerlandés nacionalizado estadounidense, exponente en los años posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial del expresionismo abstracto, y dentro del seno de esta tendencia, de la action painting o pintura gestual —pintores de este movimiento ...
- American, Dutch
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
Willem de Kooning (/ d ə ˈ k uː n ɪ ŋ /; 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 an American citizen in 1962. [3]
13 de may. de 2024 · 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.
