Willem de Kooning

Willem Kooning (Rotterdam, April 24th 1904 - East Hampton, March 19th 1997) is a painter Dutch naturalized American.

His/her father was a wine merchant while his/her mother held a bar in the district of the wearing of Rotterdam. He follows a formation to the school of Arts and Techniques of the city then continues it with Brussels. At 21 years, in 1926, it embarks clandestinely for the United States. It settles in New York where it saw odd jobs. He discovers Greenwich Village, the district of the artists. He binds with the first American abstract painters and decides in 1935 to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1937, he adds a particle to his name to return it more hooker. He becomes acquainted with Arshile Gorky with which he will divide a workshop in 1947 and like him, is interested as well in the abstraction as with the figuration. Thanks to its councils, De Kooning “learns how to keep a form punt while giving the idea of a volume”. They are both inspired by Miró and Picasso.

De Kooning categorically refuses any affiliation with a movement of art because according to its dires: " the style is a trickery It was a dreadful idea to seek, like Van Doesburg or Mondrian, to produce, of any parts, a style." It is however affiliated to the current of the abstract expressionism. In April 1948, it exposes for the first time only. In 1950 it launches a series on the women entitled Women , in particular representing Marilyn Monroe, followed by a series on the Blacks to the the United States. One starts to speak about the “pink De Kooning”.

In 1961, it settles in a large workshop with East Hampton.

In 1989, it is reached by the Maladie of Alzheimer and dies in 92 years in 1997.

Currently, it belongs to the contemporary painters with dimensions and one of most expensive in the world.

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