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Kooning Paintings, De Kooning Paintings, Rotterdam Netherlands, Expressionist Artists, Willem De Kooning, Whitney Museum, Jackson Pollock, March 19, Caravaggio

In the late 1950s, Willem de Kooning began dividing his time between New York and eastern Long Island, then a rural area. His paintings of this period, as he described them in 1960, reflect the change in his surroundings. “They’re emotions, most of them. Most of them are landscapes and highways and sensations of that, outside the city—with the feeling of going to the city or coming from it.” That same year he painted Door to the River, making his wide brushstrokes with housepainter’s…

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Kooning Paintings, De Kooning Paintings, Clyfford Still, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lucian Freud, Edouard Vuillard, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman

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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