Download or read book Willem de Kooning written by Susan Lake and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather than rigorous technical analysis. This is the first systematic study of de Kooning's creative process to use comprehensive scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports to inform art historical interpretations, thereby presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work. Written for conservation scientists, conservators, specialists in modern art history, museum curators, and practicing artists, this book offers insights into the way an artist can achieve radical changes in style. The technical discussions will have practical applications for conservators, curators, collections managers, and collectors who care for twentieth-century art.
Download or read book de Kooning written by Mark Stevens and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitizer Prize and National Book Critics Award Circle Award. An authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master. 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. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. 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 American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. 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. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. 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. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. 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. 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. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimer’s, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
Download or read book De Kooning written by Willem De Kooning and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the development of the artist's work as it unfolded over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.
Download or read book Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection which comprises sixty-three modern paintings, sculptures and works on paper by fifty artists. The Abstract Expressionist paintings that form the heart of this collection were nearly all created in New York City.
Download or read book Willem de Kooning written by Willem De Kooning and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Willem de Kooning written by Judith Zilczer and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, and established his art within the pastoral tradition of painting, as well as within the social context of America in the 1960s. She views his art of these years as analogous to the approaches to art taken by many of the Old Master painters, who achieved "old-age" styles late in life. A pioneering essay on the technical qualities of de Kooning's work, reporting on results of infrared examination and other conservation analyses, by Zilczer and Susan.
Download or read book Willem De Kooning written by Edvard Lieber and published by . This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout with Lieber's candid photographs, this book presents a firsthand portrait of artist Willem de Kooning that sheds light on Abstract Expressionism and debunks many Kooning myths. 95 illustrations, 70 in full color.
Download or read book A Generous Vision written by Cathy Curtis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette. Flamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively casual style. As a painter, she melded Abstract Expressionism with a lifelong interest in bodily movement to capture subjects as diverse as President John F. Kennedy, basketball players, and bullfights. In her romantic life, she went her own way, always keen for male attention. But she credited her husband, Willem de Kooning, as her greatest influence; rather than being overshadowed by his fame, she worked "in his light." Nearly two decades after their separation, after finally embracing sobriety herself, she returned to his side to rescue him from severe alcoholism. Based on painstaking research and dozens of interviews, A Generous Vision brings to life a leading figure of twentieth-century art who lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms.
Download or read book Richard Shiff Writing After Art written by Richard Shiff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad and deep anthology of critic and art historian Richard Shiff’s most influential writings, which have shaped our understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. In his engaging and often strikingly deep observations of major modern and contemporary visual art, Shiff has written about an impressive range of artists, including Willem de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, and Bridget Riley. A leading scholar and powerful voice, Shiff’s insight into some of the most prominent artistic practices spans generation, place, and approach as seen in this considered selection of essays on twenty-six artists. These writings first appeared in exhibition catalogues for retrospectives at galleries and institutions including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Modern. Shiff supplements his unquestionable fluency in art history with insights cultivated from his readings in philosophy, phenomenology, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, among other fields. Shiff’s writing—conceptually rich, meditative, and enjoyable to read—is attuned to the nuances of artistic style and technique, drawing out art’s social implications not merely from broad histories but also directly from artists’ mark making and technical gestures. Actively engaged as a viewer and a writer, Shiff has transformed the act of looking at art into contemplative and captivating writing. Includes essays on Georg Baselitz, Mark Bradford, Georges Braque, Jim Campbell, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Dan Flavin, Suzan Frecon, Lucian Freud, Ellen Gallagher, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Julie Mehretu, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Jack Whitten, and Zeng Fanzhi.
Download or read book Interviews with American Artists written by David Sylvester and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past 40 years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.
Download or read book Drawings 1974 1984 written by Frank Gettings and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Late Thoughts written by Karen Painter and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects nine essays that discusses the creativity of influential artists, as well as the legacy of their work following their deaths, and covers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piet Mondrian, Frank Gehry, and others.
Download or read book Twentieth century American Painting written by Gail Levin and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed analysis of the 128 paintings and drawings in the collection, each work reflecting the staggering number of trends that emerged during this period.
Download or read book The Figurative Fifties written by Paul Schimmel and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition catalog examines the figurative aspects of New York School painting at the height of abstract expressionism. It represents 13 artists who countered the prevailing abstract mode in favor of the figure. The volume also includes four informative essays that elucidate the illustrations, and provides a list of exhibits for each artist from 1950 to 1965. ISBN 0-8478-0942-0: $37.50 (For use only in the library).
Download or read book Hamptons Bohemia written by Helen Harrison and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with archival photos and reproductions of the artists' work, "Hamptons Bohemia" chronicles the evolution of a community and the colorful characters who have inhabited it, from Winslow Homer to George Plimpton. 176 full-color and halftone images.
Download or read book Willem de Kooning written by Willem De Kooning and published by Walker Art Center. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and scheduled to appear as well in museums in Bonn, Rotterdam, and New York during 1996 and 1997. Until now, the 1980s paintings have been seen only in a handful of gallery exhibitions or in the context of large museum surveys; this presentation allows study of the distinguishing qualities of these late paintings, and the thoroughly researched essays explore the complex issues surrounding de Kooning's affliction with Alzheimer's disease. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Willem de Kooning Works from 1951 1981 written by Judith Lynn Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
