Willem De Kooning Attic 1949

Most of the paintings in the exhibition resembled untitled compositions painted in black and white with vaguely recognizable shapes and complex plays of figure and ground.

Willem de kooning attic 1949.

Oil enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas 61 7 8 x 81 inches. In willem de kooning. Attic 1949 willem de kooning american born the netherlands. Asheville 1948 49 attic 1949 and excavation 1950 which reintroduced colour and seem to sum up with taut decisiveness the problems of free associative composition he had struggled with for many years.

Figural elements punctuate the ambiguous space in attic 1949 one in a series of de kooning postwar black and white compositions. All artworks by willem de kooning the willem de kooning foundation artists rights society ars new york. He was born in rotterdam and moved to the united states in 1926 becoming an american citizen in 1962. De kooning was already forty four years old when he had his first solo exhibition at the charlie egan gallery in the spring of 1948.

One of the most prominent and celebrated of the abstract expressionist painters willem de kooning s pictures typify the vigorous gestural style of the movement. Willem de kooning april 24 1904 march 19 1997 was a dutch american abstract expressionist artist who was born in rotterdam the netherlands. Willem de kooning born april 24 1904 rotterdam netherlands died march 19 1997 east hampton new york u s 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 these two tendencies. Willem de kooning attic 1949 oil enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas 159 1 x 207 6 x 6 4 cm.

Born in rotterdam holland willem de kooning left school at sixteen and apprenticed with a firm of commercial artists and decorators. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries he developed a radically abstract style of painting that fused cubism surrealism and expressionism while many of his colleagues moved from figuration to. In the post world war ii era de kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or action painting and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the. De k ooning.

Born in rotterdam holland willem de kooning left school at sixteen and apprenticed with a firm of commercial artists and decorators. Even the artist s most abstract works says scholar richard shiff. April 24 1904 march 19 1997 was a dutch american abstract expressionist artist. Early life and work.

New york the metropolitan museum of art the muriel kallis steinberg newman collection. In 1926 he moved to new york where his first job was as a house painter. Sharing a studio with the artist arshile gorky de kooning immersed himself. In 1943 he married painter elaine fried.