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Willem de Kooning, uno degli artisti più rivoluzionari e influenti del ventesimo secolo, sarà il protagonista della grande esposizione Willem de Kooning e l'Italia nello spazio dedicato alle mostre temporanee alle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. La mostra, in concomitanza con la 60° Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia, apre al ...
- Childhood and Early Training
- Mature Period
- Later Years and Death
- The Legacy of Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 1904, and his parents divorced when he was three. His mother, Cornelia Nobel, ran a bar and largely raised de Kooning on her own. He found his artistic vocation early and left school when he was twelve to apprentice at a commercial design and decorating firm. He then went on to study at ...
In the mid-1940s, De Kooning began a series of black and white abstractions, reportedly because he could not afford expensive pigments and had to turn to cheaper household enamels. With the pared-down color palette and the radical flattening of pictorial space, these abstractions, shown at the Charles Egan Gallery in 1948, portended the rise of Abs...
Thomas Hess described the settings for de Kooning's Women as "no-environment," indicating their ambiguous space, and his larger abstractions from mid-1950s seemed part and parcel of the gritty urban environment in which de Kooning lived. By the late 1950s, however, he was beginning to show interest in a new type of scenery. He began a series of Abs...
While Jackson Pollock has been extolled as the most important and influential Abstract Expressionist and influenced the likes of Allan Kaprow, many young painters at the time found that appropriating Pollock's process of painting tended to produce paintings that looked like Pollock's, but de Kooning's use of color and gestural application of paint,...
- American
- April 24, 1904
- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- March 19, 1997
Biography. Plaque affixed on de Kooning's house of birth in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on April 24, 1904. His parents, Leendert de Kooning and Cornelia Nobel, were divorced in 1907, and de Kooning lived first with his father and then with his mother.
Willem de Kooning. If Jackson Pollock was the public face of the New York avant-garde, Willem de Kooning could be described as an artist’s artist, who was perceived by many of his peers as its leader. He was born in Rotterdam, where he grew up in an impoverished household and attended the Rotterdam Academy, training in fine and commercial arts.
Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52. Oil and metallic paint on canvas. 6' 3 7/8" x 58" (192.7 x 147.3 cm). Purchase. 478.1953. © 2024 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting and Sculpture.
Willem de Kooning was born on April 24, 1904, into a working class family in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Driven by an acutely perceptive mind, a strong work ethic, and persistent self doubt – coupled with the determination to achieve – the charismatic de Kooning became one of America’s and the twentieth century’s most influential artists.
Between 1950 and 1953, de Kooning made the series for which he is best known, the Women, and this painting from approximately 1952 is a fine example of the subject. The small scale of this painting on paper belies both the potency of the iconic image and the dramatic dynamism of the vigorous, gestural brushwork.
