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Willem de Kooning | | Birth Date: |
April 24, 1904 | | Death Date: |
March 19, 1997 | | Place of Birth: |
Rotterdam, Holland | | Place of Death: |
East Hampton, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American, Dutch | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
painter, artist |
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Biography of Willem de Kooning
1,136 words, approx. 4 pages
 The Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Before the 1940s the major advances in modern painting were forged on English and European soil. American artists,...


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Willem de Kooning Quotes
349 words, approx. 1 pages
 Willem de Kooning ( 24 April 1904 – 19 March 1997 ) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sourced The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All...


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Willem de Kooning Information
1,477 words, approx. 5 pages
 Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, the...




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 The Village Voice
Willem De Kooning
06/16/2004: 347 words, approx. 1 pages A centennial show celebrates early and late de Kooning WILLEM DE KOONING Gagosian Gallery 555 West 24th Street Through June 19 Gagosian's centennial celebration of Willem de Kooning begins with his hard-nosed breakthroughs into abstraction and ends by unveiling...
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 Art in America
Willem de Kooning at the Drawing Center.
05/01/1999: 486 words, approx. 2 pages This has certainly been a season for seeing the graphic work of Willem de Kooning, with a large, diverse exhibition shown jointly at Matthew Marks and Mitchell-Inness & Nash and this tighter selection, "Drawing Seeing/Seeing Drawing," at the Drawing Center. Guest curator Klaus...
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 The New York Observer
Another Hamptons Buying Season! Hedge Fund King Nabs $19.95 M. Palace
5/15/2007: 312 words, approx. 1 pages New Yorkers with gobs and gobs of money can afford certain pleasures, like Mayan abdominal massages or pomegranate-tangerine juices or the occasional 9,000-square-foot East Hampton mansion. And because the mammoth art collector and SAC Capital hedge-fund founder Steven A. Cohen is worth around $3 billion,...
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 The New York Observer
Reckoning, If Not Repaying, New World\'d5s Debt to Picasso
10/29/2006: 974 words, approx. 3 pages “One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that sets out to examine the “profound impact” Picasso had on painters and sculptors stateside. It had damn well better...



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Kooning Report
1,341 words, approx. 5 pages
 As the story of his life reveals, the painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) never conformed to a particular style of painting; while he was labeled an abstract expressionist, his series on women set him apart from other painters of that style. The painting Seated Woman (1940), depicting a woman in a bar who is seemingly in despair over being stood up by a man, is among de Kooning's most intriguing works.


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