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Willem De Kooning Two Women  oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Two Women oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning Police Gazette oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Police Gazette oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning Composition oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Composition oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning Saturday Night oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Saturday Night oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning The Time of the Fire oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning The Time of the Fire oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning Woman 1 oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Woman 1 oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning Two Figures in a Landscape oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Two Figures in a Landscape oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning Amityville oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning Amityville oil painting reproduction

Willem De Kooning North Atlantic Light oil painting reproduction
Willem De Kooning North Atlantic Light oil painting reproduction

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Willem de Kooning

(1904-1997)

Dutch-born American painter, whose work is characterized by energetic brushstrokes and twisted forms. Willem De Kooning was a leading member of the abstract expressionism movement, which sought to capture the spontaneous and often vigorous act of painting through the artist’s personal gestures.

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From 1916 onward he received classical instruction in drawing and painting at the Rotterdam Academie and at the Acad&eacute;mie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Willem De Kooning emmigrated to the United States in 1926, and settled in New York City in 1927.

In the early 1950s de Kooning used slashing strokes of color to create a series of paintings of women. In many of these works, an imposing framework of angular shapes conceals a violently distorted figure with exaggerated female features. His oil paintings of women shocked many feminists, who interpreted his colliding brushstrokes as a gesture of violence toward the female body. But de Kooning related his oil paintings of women to prehistoric fertility figures.

De Kooning's art always hovers between figuration and abstraction. Easter Monday combines abstract brushstrokes with recognizable lettering and photographs of human figures.

In the early 1960s de Kooning’s compoitions opened up, with long, wide swaths of color that evoked landscape forms. By the 1970s his canvases had become more densely congested with brushstrokes. De Kooning produced simpler and more lyrical works in the 1980s, which featured loops and twisting lines of orange, blue, or red on bare white surfaces.

Willem De Kooning’s famous oil paintings include:

  • Woman V
  • Elergy
  • Pink Angels
  • Woman
  • Woman 1
  • Woman IV
  • Woman as Landscape
  • February
  • Whose Name Was Writ in Water
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