De Kooning Excavation
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De kooning excavation. Excavation by willem de kooning. His largest painting up to that date the work exemplifies the dutch born innovator s style with its expressive brushwork and distinctive organization of space into sliding planes with open contours. Excavation was created in 1950 by willem de kooning in abstract expressionism style. The image is the willem de kooning foundation artists rights society ars new york and used according to educational fair use and tagged abstract art.
De kooning completed excavationin june 1950 just in time for it to be exhibited in the twenty fifth venice biennale. Willem de kooning born april 24 1904 rotterdam netherlands died march 19 1997 east hampton new york u s dutch born american painter who was one of the leading exponents of abstract expressionism particularly the form known as action painting during the 1930s and 40s de kooning worked simultaneously in figurative and abstract modes but by about 1945 these two tendencies. Just over six and a half feet tall and eight feet wide excavation is not as monumental as some later abstract expressionist paintings but it is the biggest painting de kooning ever made. Excavation willem de kooning s largest painting up to 1950 exemplifies the artist s innovative style of expressive brushwork and distinctive organization of space into loose sliding planes with open contours.
Excavation is an abstract expressionist oil on canvas painting created by willem de kooning in 1950. All artwork is printed using archival inks resistant to fading. We offer 15 day money back guarantee. According to de kooning his point of departure was an image of women working in a rice field from bitter rice a 1949 italian neorealist film.
All artwork ships worldwide via ups ground 2nd nda. All order will take 1 3 business days for processing. Excavation 1950 by willem de kooning. Asheville 1948 49 attic 1949 and excavation 1950 which reintroduced colour and seem to sum up with taut decisiveness the problems of free associative composition he had struggled with for many years.
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