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THE PAINTING LIFE.(Book Review)
Willem de Kooning, the subject of "De Kooning: An American Master," a wise and delectable biography (Knopf; $35) by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, was the best pure painter of the twentieth century; the twenty-first will decide how much that matters. Over a seven-decade career of many phases marked, as with Picasso, by successive female lovers, de Kooning conjoined the intellectual clarities of drawing, the visual music of color, and the befuddling sensuousness of oil paint like no one else since Rubens. Other modern artists made more satisfying, resolved works. De Kooning's iconic "Woman I" (1950-52), which he reworked convulsively, and which still looks to be evolving, ...
- Painted women.(Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning; C&M Arts, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Nochlin, Linda November 1, 1998 700+ words
...exhibition "Picasso's Dora Maar/de Kooning's Women," a visually stimulating...recently at C&M Arts in New York. Picasso unquestionably played...major role in the evolution of de Kooning's style.(1) De Kooning made no bones about the importance...
- Willem de Kooning. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)(Art)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman December 5, 1994 700+ words
...devoted to the paintings of Willem de Kooning (at the Metropolitan Museum...memorializes the art of the New York School, which de Kooning's work epitomizes, and provokes...Expressionists, as the artists of the New York School have come indelibly to...
- Elaine de Kooning at Washburn. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Campbell, Lawrence January 1, 1995 700+ words
Portraiture was an art Elaine de Kooning always did on the side. In her long...Kennedy paintings on its cover, Elaine de Kooning refused, explaining that she didn...nonetheless fascinated by it. Most of Elaine de Kooning's portraits were of her friends. The...
- Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain at PaceWildenstein. (New...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Kalina, Richard January 1, 2002 700+ words
...beautifully curated pairing of Willem de Kooning's paintings and John Chamberlain...while Chamberlain, nearly 25 years de Kooning's junior, shared the painter's action...though, is that from the late '50s on de Kooning and Chamberlain were exploring similar...
- Willem de Kooning. (C&M Arts Gallery, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Schwabsky, Barry December 1, 1993 700+ words
Willem de Kooning's art has fallen into a strange twilight since Elaine de Kooning's death and the subsequent legal battle over his guardianship. No new paintings of de Kooning's have been exhibited since 1987, but those...
- Willem De Kooning: Gagosian Gallery/Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Cooper, Harry September 1, 2004 700+ words
The dominant view of de Kooning's brushstrokes maintains that they...exhibitions proposed that we look at de Kooning's career through the lens of his...is in order here. In 1978 Elaine de Kooning returned to Bill's side (they...
- USA. New York City. 1957. Painter Willem DE KOONING talks with Alexander KALDIS...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Burt Glinn January 1, 1957 700+ words
...1957 USA. New York City. 1957. Painter Willem DE KOONING talks with Alexander...Dancer Profile DE KOONING Willem Dominant...Nationality New York State New York...aged man USA. New York City. 1957. Painter Willem DE KOONING talks ...
- Among De Koonings, Calders and a whole floor of Edward Hoppers, Louise...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Nicholson, Louise July 1, 2006 700+ words
...to transport it between Paris and New York in several suitcases and give performances...canvas Four Darks in Red, and Willem de Kooning's painterly and joyful Woman and...effective and useful. Man Ray's bronze New York (1917), a witty take on the skyscraper...
