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Willem de Kooning 1904-1997 Dutch Abstract Expressionist Painter Stylistically influenced by the following painters
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- Education - Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques Cause of Death - Alzheimer's Disease
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"I am an eclectic artist by choice; I can open almost
any book of reproductions and find a painting I could be influenced by."
Willem de Kooning
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| Russian artist
Wassily
Kandinsky is considered as the father of abstract art. In 1910
he exhibited the first totally abstract painting - a mysterious
and sensual watercolor.
Abstract art is based upon the idea that the spiritual and emotional
aspect of art must be unchained from the figurative form.
According to Kandinsky "To let the eye stray over a palette,
splashed with many colours, produces a dual result. In the first place
one receives a PURELY PHYSICAL IMPRESSION, one of pleasure and
contentment at the varied and beautiful colours. The eye is either
warmed or else soothed and cooled. But these physical sensations can
only be of short duration. They are merely superficial and leave no
lasting impression, for the soul is unaffected. But although the effect
of the colours is forgotten when the eye is turned away, the superficial
impression of varied colour may be the starting point of a whole chain
of related sensations." The
movement was a rebellion against overwrought portraiture and trite
historical themes. The artists dissociated themselves from
representational art and emphasized emotional colors, non-objective
forms, structure and composition. Abstractionists painted for themselves
creating art for arts sake. They worked only from an inner vision and
applied paint in a loose, vigorous manner creating beautiful
intellectual poems. Abstract Expressionism is a movement that grew
out of the abstract style, originating in the United States in after
World War II. Painters created vivid art-works in many diverse styles,
using a variety of mediums. They emphasized uninhibited personal
expression on very large canvases. |
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| Key terms associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement - non-objective, modernism, non representational art, action painting, automatism, individualism, unconscious determinants, contemporary, colour navigation, avant-garde, emotionalism, post-modernism, art concrete, psychoanalysis, inner psyche | ||||
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Major Painters of Abstract Expressionist Movement
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