AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which has not reviewed this resource. Willem de Kooning (Willem Kooning 1937-ig) (Rotterdam, 1904. április 24. Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912, Käthe Kollwitz, In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht, Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, Stepanova, The Results of the First Five-Year Plan, Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon), Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (*short version*), Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (*long version*), Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco, Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware, we're in the Museum of Modern Art in New York looking at willem de Kooning's woman won from nineteen fifty fifty two so this painting took a long time to paint duke Unni worked on it over a number of years and that's really evident when we look at the surface of the painting which looks like layers and layers of different textures of paint some thin and drippy and some thick and matte in fact some of his friends when they spoke about this painting remember that de Kooning actually had worked on a whole series of images of a woman on the same canvas and would work on it until the painting fell apart and then he would basically wipe it away and start over again so his objective was not a finished product but instead process the quickness of the brushstrokes which are so visible imply the painting was made quickly the brushwork is almost calligraphic and muscular and tough the paint is thick and look at the colors that he's using they are so garish and as if the brilliant pinks and orange and yellows up against muddy passages of flesh tones wasn't enough he's also put a border of silver on the right side the colors seem to be intentionally difficult those fleshy pinky peachy tones but also olive green that feels really dissonant Munda Kooning is one of the central Abstract Expressionists he was friends with Jackson Pollock he was spending time with Mark Rothko and yet here's a man who goes back to the human figure and large-scale seated female figure goes all the way back in the history of art to the Madonna this is sacred art that has been brought into the 20th century and made profane and commercial the eyes the emphasis on her breasts I start to see the relationship to images of pinup girls sexualized images of women with thick lipstick teeth showing in wide grins and mascara and eyeliner it's such an interesting moment and American history ji Hye's coming back from the war the representation of the woman either on the silver screen on a movie poster taking on the sexualized eroticized images of women she comes forward toward us she's overwhelming in her size that she fills up the canvas it's important to remember that Willem de Kooning was one of the few artists of the Abstract Expressionists generation that had been trained in a very traditional way he could draw as well as any academically trained artists going back to the 19th century it's about finding an art that is still meaningful in a sea of reproductive technologies where visual images are bombarding us and it's about what the tradition of the figure means in an art world that has turned to abstraction I find myself looking at the figure and trying to find it where is her right arm does it hang down by her side does it come across her laughs where are her legs were her thighs so he's constructing that body for us but he's also refusing to allow it to exist in any coherent way so given a kind of abstract field how do we populate that with the human figure where does she exist part of the tension is that the painting is essentially an abstract field if he had pushed the painting a little bit further and the figure had dissolved it's the abstract field of the canvas that would have asserted itself and precluded the space for the figure to exist this is a painting right on the edge where the figure is still able to maintain itself in space even given the hazards of the abstraction on which she exists there is something about that space between abstraction and figuration that has to do with the fact that this is a male artist painting a female figure she's overwhelming de Kooning has taken the desire of the male viewer for the pinup for the commercialized female figure in contemporary visual culture and use that as a kind of fuel for this painting is aggressive and energetic her eyes are bulging her teeth are bared there is aggression in this painting this was improvisation this was a kind of experimentation this was a kind of discovery is this contemporary representation of the female figure it is also about how that work is made. Photo courtesy of The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London Photo 2015. On the anniversary of the Dutch abstract expressionist's birth, we tell the tale behind one of his infamous works. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. He began the first, Woman I, [1] in June 1950, repeatedly changing and painting out the image until January or February 1952, when the work was abandoned, unfinished. Donate or volunteer today! He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Founding Fathers: Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell and Barnett Newman, October-November 1965. Woman I and De Kooning’s Woman paintings of the 1950s are examples of eclectic works that not only contain elements of various art movements, but more importantly represent a breakthrough for De Kooning. 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