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De Kooning Paintings, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lucian Freud, Edouard Vuillard, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, Wayne Thiebaud, Barnett Newman, Expressionist Artists

A leading artist among the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning never believed that abstraction and representation were mutually exclusive. As he stated: “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.” Woman and Bicycle, one of a series of…

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De Kooning Paintings, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Expressionist Artists, Willem De Kooning, Action Painting, Expressionist Painting, 1950s Style, Mark Rothko

Willem de Kooning (1904–97) was a Dutch-American artist and leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. He got his start early, taking night classes at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam from the age of 12, and also working during that time as an apprentice for a commercial art and decorating firm. He came to the United States as a stowaway in 1926, and landed in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he worked briefly as a house painter before moving to New York City. De Kooning’s abstract and…

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