Dekooning Drawings
Large brushes and fluid paints were the tools of this trade ones that he would continue to utilize throughout his artistic career.
Dekooning drawings. I don t paint with ideas of art in mind. It becomes my content the artist once explained. Erased de kooning drawing is an early work of us artist robert rauschenberg. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries he developed a radically abstract style of painting that fused cubism surrealism and expressionism.
Flesh was the reason oil paint was invented he famously said. Choose your favorite dekooning designs and purchase them as wall art home decor phone cases tote bags and more. Perhaps de kooning s most famous series were his woman paintings inspired in part by pablo picasso s work they featured a wholly original approach to deconstructing the figure. Make offer willem de kooning woman iv 1952 53 limited edition giclee art print rare willem de kooning music book reproduction framed nice home decor lob3 149 00.
Conté crayon and charcoal on paper 18 1 2 x 24 1 4 inches portrait of renée 1924 oil charcoal and conté crayon on canvas 22 1 4 x 18 1 4 inches no title flower sellers c. Erased de kooning drawing robert rauschenberg 1953. Rauschenberg asked his friend jasper johns to add a written caption to the frame which reads. Summary of willem de kooning one of the most prominent and celebrated of the abstract expressionist painters willem de kooning s pictures typify the vigorous gestural style of the movement.
In 1950s new york when painters like jackson pollock and franz kline were moving away from representational imagery toward pure abstraction de kooning maintained a commitment to the figurative tradition developing a signature style that fused vivid color and aggressive paint handling with deconstructed images of the female form a then controversial body of works that has become known as his women paintings. This was not an uncommon thing for de kooning who often liked to close. In new jersey de kooning found work as a house painter. Shop for dekooning art from the world s greatest living artists.
It is considered a neo dadaist conceptual artwork with similarities affinities to added. His dual foundations in drawing and craftsmanship underlay all of his work even his most abstract paintings. An almost blank piece of paper in a simple gilded frame. I see something that excites me.
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