Willem de Kooning: abstract expressionist

[alexanderrrrrrrrr]

@sundroid Could you tell me what the titles of the graphic works shown from 0:34 to 0:48 are ?

Thank you.

[alexanderrrrrrrrr]

@alexanderrrrrrrrr and maybe also those from 1:05 to 1:22. Thank you.

[thefreedomartist]

Thanks for posting this, what a very great painter!

[ioapapa]

i liiiike

[meesterschilders]

5* and placed into my playlist of Willem de Kooning, thanks

[SHINYamAHA21]

Williem de Kooning, what's wonderful about De Kooning...he actually started to explore Abstract Expressionism in his mid age. Brilliant artist. He was inspired by Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, in my inspiration De Kooning's work is real genuis. Gorky's can be confused with Picasso and more.

at the MOMA, I gasped.

[nanoubix]

To dinnerbrucket9 - de Kooning was not classically trained but his interest, as a youth, was commercial art, shop window design and illustration, which is what he learned at the Academy, not fine art.

[polymath7]

*game show buzzer*

EH!!

Dead wrong.

De Kooning spent eight years at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and, like Picasso, was deeply virtuoso in classical techniques (oh, and don't tell me "virtuoso" is not an adjective).

[QuashedByWatermelons]

His works are very lyrical it seems to me, and just get better and better with time.

[chivaleader89]

this song is way to creepy. I like kooning thou. I love abstract.

[painter1026]

名利如黃花，權勢似落日；

成敗興衰轉，有誰得常在。

[Speedofsmell]

the secret truth behind de kooning is he sold out to the modern with his women series which was alot like what picassos sketches were looking like. i like his abstract work vs his surrealist work he was in america with all the other artists fleeing europe its kinda hard to break from a style your so used to doing and change on a dime awesome work though i find pollocks earlier pre drip paintings more intense and comanding

[dinnerbucket9]

I think of him as an ambivalent sensualist. I am not aware of any AB EX who was more classically trained. He also 'arrived' as American painters were beginning to displace Eurpean painters, leaving him in a complex position. Pollock was a brute. Rothko his counter-shape. But all were, in respect to the progression of the form, working out very similar problems.

[dotjeknotje]

ik heet Dominique de Koning :D:D:P

hahhaha

[camargovalentino]

question? what exactly is dekooning trying to say with his work? dont get me wrong i like abstract expressionism, rothko, pollock, but not de kooning. i dont find anything to his work. Is he one of those artist whos all about questioning the mind or what?.

[LePeintreMaudit]

Are you a Painter ? If you were, then you would know the TRUTH... That you prefer decoration to substance, then you must have eyes of no depth & I pity you...

[morishit]

I totally agree with you, but the way camargovalentino talking is realy humble. anyway, de kooning is my best.

[manwithnoname123]

yeah, i wouldn't have recognized the early stuff in the Surrealist style - they look like bad de Chirico's...

[polymath7]

I certainly wouldn't say BAD de Chiricos.

[LePeintreMaudit]

Actually, the Chirico's were bad... They made no sense... They were Surrealist & were not possibly possible... de Koonings made sense, so they look strange...

[iggypot]

every since i saw his work, de kooning has been my favorite painter - from any and all periods of history. the only painter to truly represent interior states of being.

[km90210]

Great choice in music too (Brian Eno?)

[sherriwestfall]

Awesome video!

[dellsbox]

Very Cool

[pues13]

de kooning is soooo tight. and by the way he was not a "tortured artist."

[alexitin]

well he was a pretty bad drunk, that seems a form of torture.

[TheYearOfTheDude]

good point

[freddothegreat]

de Kooning was a great master who livid a tortured life. I look to him, Pollock and Rothko for inspiratation. If you liked this video, check out "Frederick Doar Dreams of Understanding" Let me know what you think.

[Robinelise20]

Willem de Kooning=Dutch guy by the way

[R38Blane]

DeKoonong called himself "The Electric Artist", and the vigorous, linear quality in his drawings are unlike any other artist of the 21st century, he truly was a pioneer of modern art. What's more is that even in his prime, I'm pretty sure that if we both threw down, I could have beaten him in a street fight.

[ChameleonMood]

the surreal work is de kooning's as well, its early work

[keagankeagankeagan]

And I like the track you put to this. Any info?

[sundroid]

The soundtrack is Brian Eno's "M386" from "Music for Films" album.

[keagankeagankeagan]

What was the forth piece?

Thank you.

[omunhvilag]

Not to be too critical: (1) captions re titles and dates. (2) quality of resolution and photography. Also I am not sure every painting and picture should be "dissolve." Overall, I also couldn't be happier to see it on Youtube. I send as a gift my portaits of Mardsen Hartley.

[ARTdogPILL]

mental hot de kooning [][][][]¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

[JohnCasey]

Nice tribute to de Kooning, but what are those

(non de Kooning) quasi Surrealist images in

the middle of the video?

[sundroid]

I assume you're referring to the 3 images that compose a piece of work called "Legend and Fact" (one of the images shows an anchor on the sand). They may look "non-de Kooning", but they were indeed created by de Kooning. National Gallery of Art in D. C. has the collection, which you can view at: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pin­fo?Object=52335+0+none

[JohnCasey]

@sundroid Thanks foir info. Wrote to De Kooning biographers, but they didn't respond. (They don't have that info in the book and missed that effort completely, saying WD was unemployed during that time period.)

[TileNut]

What a refreshing thing to find on YouTube! Lke looking at a particular artform and era, through this lens of a different medium and a new era. It reminds us of what we need to live up to.