Willem de Kooning: abstract expressionist

A video tribute to Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), the great American painter of abstract expressionism.

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[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.

[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

[alexanderrrrrrrrr]

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

[alexanderrrrrrrrr]

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

Thank you.

[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.)

[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).

[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.

[QuashedByWatermelons]

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