De Kooning graduated from the Academy in 1924, having received certification as both an artist and craftsperson. When de Kooning had completed his training in traditional arts and crafts, the Gidings assisted him in enrolling in the Academie Voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschapen, where he attended evening classes for the next eight years (1916-1924). The future painter’s artistic talents were evident even in childhood, and at the age of 12 he left school to apprentice with Jan and Jaap Giding, the proprietors of a large commercial art firm. De Kooning’s parents separated when he was five, and after a brief period in which he lived with his father (with whom he was very close), his mother demanded that he live with her. Both of his parents were involved in the sale of alcohol, his father as a distributor, and his mother as the proprietor of a bar. Willem de Kooning was born on April 24, 1904, in Rotterdam, Holland. It doesn’t matter if it’s different from mine as long as it comes from the painting which has its own integrity and intensity.” Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or an idea.
I paint this way because I can keep putting more and more things in - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. “Painting isn’t just the visual thing that reaches your retina,” the artist once said, “it’s what’s behind it. Friend and New Yorker critic Harold Rosenberg first used the term “Action painting” to refer to de Kooning’s violent slashes of color and the shifting foreground and background typical of his abstract work. The group of painters that would be identified as the New York School was made up of de Kooning and contemporaries such as Arshile Gorky and Edgar Denby, and they helped to establish New York City’s reputation as a center for artistic activity.Īlthough his work appears spontaneous, de Kooning often spent many months on a single piece, repeatedly painting over completed sections and occasionally pressing newspaper onto the drying canvas. Remembered for his large canvases as well as the controversial melding of both abstract and figurative imagery, de Kooning lived much longer than his contemporaries, many of whom had untimely deaths. Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) is widely considered to be one of the greatest Abstract Expressionist painters of the post-World War II period, his dominance rivaled perhaps only by Jackson Pollock.
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