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In the years after World War II, 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 New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko ...
- De Kooning’s Womenseries
- Woman I
- Action Painting
Although the women de Kooning painted range from slightly bizarre looking to downright terrifying, he did not, as many believed, have a problem with women. Quite the opposite, in fact; he saw himself as a champion of women, and did not see himself as a misogynist. Journalist James Fitzsimmons wrote in Art magazine that de Kooning was involved “in a...
Woman I took almost two years to complete, and was almost destroyed numerous times. De Kooning took an unusually long time to prepare for Woman I, making numerous preliminary sketches and constantly painting over the image on the canvas. His wife Elaine stated that he painted over 200 versions of the woman on the same canvas, scraping each one away...
The term ‘action painting’ was coined by Harold Rosenberg in 1952. An alternative to abstract expressionism, action painting emphasized the revolutionary nature of the artist’s decision to paint. The term also included the fact that the artworks that used action painting were often imperfect, with hurried, frenzied brushstrokes and paint spilling o...
Er war einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter des abstrakten Expressionismus und gilt neben Jackson Pollock als Wegbereiter des Action Paintings . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Werk. 1.1 Kindheit und Jugend. 1.2 Gestalterlehre. 1.3 Kunststudium. 1.4 Amerika, Freundschaft mit Arshile Gorky.
19. März 1997 · Willem de Kooning pioneered the gestural, abstract style of Action Painting that became the staple of New York Abstract Expressionism.
- American
- April 24, 1904
- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- March 19, 1997
In the years after World War II, 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 New York School.
Action Painting has become synonymous with the gestural painting of artists as diverse as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. Most typically, the action of Action Painting is associated with how the artist puts paint on canvas. The Abstract Expressionists were not using tiny brushes and delicately putting paint on the canvas ...
Woman I is the first in the group of Woman paintings that de Kooning began in 1950. The works are influenced by sources ranging from Paleolithic fertility fetishes to American billboard advertisements, and the attributes of this particular figure seem to include both the vengeful power of the goddess and the hollow seductiveness of the calendar ...
