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De Kooning Paintings, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lucian Freud, Edouard Vuillard, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, 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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Start with Art: Door to the River by Willem de Kooning - The Vivienne Files De Kooning Paintings, Willem De Kooning, Painting Media, Whitney Museum, Jackson Pollock, Caravaggio, Abstract Expressionist, Woman Painting, Museum Of Modern Art

June 26, 2020 She knew, as soon as she saw it, that the door lead to where she wanted to be… Some other day – some other season – she knew that she would include the blue, and the darker browns and greys, in her wardrobe. But for now, for the summer, she wants lightness… […]

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$300,000,000 for Willem de Kooning’s Interchange, 1955. | 15 Of The Most Expensive Paintings In The World De Kooning Paintings, Most Expensive Painting, Expensive Paintings, Expressionist Artists, Amedeo Modigliani, Jasper Johns, Willem De Kooning, Action Painting, Paul Cezanne

Willem de Kooning has become synonymous with a post–World War II art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As the world attempted to put itself together after the war, so did artists like de Kooning, who felt disillusioned and damaged by the events that transpired. De Kooning's work expresses the ugly reality of that new world.

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