Mit hervorragenden Reproduktionen und informativen Texten bietet dieser günstige Band eine gelungene Einführung in das Werk des amerikanischen Malers niederländischer Herkunft Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), der an der Yale Universität lehrend als einer der Hauptvertreter des Abstrakten Expressionismus gelten darf. Mit seinem Namen verbunden ist auch das sog. Action Painting. Dann hat er auch wieder Figuratives, vor allem Frauenakte, mit dem Abstrakten verbunden.

Thomas Bernhard für lehrerbibliothek.de

Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement. Inspired by Arshile Gorky to abandon the realist style that had dominated his work in the 1930s, he began experimenting with abstraction in the 1940s and quickly gained critical success. His monumental Woman series of the 1950s—characterized by wild color and aggressive overtones— was received with both controversy and acclaim. He continued to paint until the late 1980s, leaving behind a vast and impressive body of work.

The author:
Barbara Hess studied art history and romance languages in Cologne and Florence. Based in Cologne, she is a freelance author and translator and has written extensively on modern and contemporary art for magazines including Camera Austria, Flash Art, and Texte zur Kunst.

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