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Showing posts with label Willem de Kooning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Willem de Kooning. Show all posts
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
once de Kooning was a stowaway in a boat to America...
Willem de Kooning (American, born the Netherlands. 1904-1997)
1960. Oil on canvas, 6' 8 1/4" x 70 1/8" (203.7 x 178.1 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
"This work belongs to a group of abstractions inspired by the landscape. In them de Kooning simplified his visual vocabulary to a few powerful, expansive brushstrokes that evoke the vistas of color found in the natural world. He described the experience that inspired these works: “Just coming around roads, some place, and having the sensation of a piece of it, a piece of nature, like a fence, something on the road. … And I really get very elated by again looking, by again seeing that the sky is blue, that the grass is green.”"
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