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| Title | : | de Kooning: An American Master |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.16 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375711163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 732 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
"from ArtsyFartsy News, October/November 2007" according to Robert Burridge Studio. I just finished reading a terrific book - de Kooning: An American Master. After I finished reading, I looked at the book jacket again and noticed it was one of the New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year" and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. For good reason! It is a thorough account of Willem de Kooning, the painter.I found it difficult to stop reading and when I did, I felt a huge urge to run to . de Kooning, an American Master Ted Marks When the history of art in the 20th century is written, one of the key movements of the century will be abstract expressionism -- a school of art that moved painting from a visual experience into a cerebral exploration of ideas and emotions.It was a time in the 1940s and 50s when the focus of the art world shifted from Paris to New York. The horrors of World War II were behind us, and American culture. good Gentle Reader Very engaging and detailed biography
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figure—and his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank O’Hara. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York school—just as American art began to dominate the international scene.Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in Americ
De Kooning's Woman is "part vamp, part tramp," a Hollywood pinup girl with push-up bazooms, a dirty joke and a scary goddess based on a Mexican deity to whom hearts were sacrificed. He called himself a "slipping glimpser," and this book helps us see what he saw. I also know what de Kooning was like in bed (loud), how he managed to cheat on five steady lovers at a time(different doorbell codes), why he slept drunk in gutters even after he got rich, and how deeply he loved and how coldly he used women. He subsisted on ketchup and booze, and broke through around 1950 with dazzling abstract expressionist canvases inspired by what was in the air: cubism, surrealism, jazz, and film noir. The careerist thing to do would've been to ride the Ab Ex tsunami, but de Kooning stubbornly defied purist abstraction with the startlingly quasi-figurative Woman paintings. Stevens and Swan artfully show how much went into t
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