Attic Willem De Kooning

Even the artist s most abstract works says scholar richard shiff.

Attic willem de kooning.

His largest painting up to that date the work exemplifies. The willem de kooning foundation. Summary of willem de kooning. The show was little noticed in the press but it jolted the artists of the.

Between 1946 and 1949 de kooning produced a series of highly abstract black and white paintings that culminated in attic in which angular thrusting forms collide with organic curvilinear ones to yield a high pitched expressive picture. 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. He was born in rotterdam and moved to the united states in 1926 becoming an american citizen in 1962. The dense web of white shapes and black lines makes it difficult to sort out relationships between form.

April 24 1904 march 19 1997 was a dutch american abstract expressionist artist. Willem de kooning d ə ˈ k uː n ɪ ŋ. 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 years after world war ii de kooning painted in a style that came to be.

All artworks by willem de kooning the willem de kooning foundation artists rights society ars new york. Oil enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas 61 7 8 x 81 inches. Figural elements punctuate the ambiguous space in attic 1949 one in a series of de kooning postwar black and white compositions. 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.

Mixed media on board 14 9 16 x 18 5 16 inches. Oil enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas 61 7 8 x 81 inches. In 1943 he married painter elaine fried. The foundation fosters the study and appreciation of willem de kooning s life and work through research exhibitions and educational programs.

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.