Willem de Kooning

I really do like Willem de Kooning's abstract paintings; the colours and shapes used and created really work well together and work well as a whole. I like being able to see the layers in a painting and I feel it shows the commitment and time taken to decide if the piece is finished or not.

I feel that not two pieces of his work are the same, like with most artists, but his seem so individual and different to all the rest. I like this way of drawing and painting as I feel like it's really a way of letting go and believing in what you are doing; you also never really know what the finished piece will look like.
I could look at Kooning's work all day, because you can always notice something new or hidden that you haven't seen before, because of all the shapes and lines used. Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as Abstract expressionism or Action painting, and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, and Clyfford Still.

In September 2011 de Kooning's work was honored with a large-scale retrospective exhibition: de Kooning: A Retrospective September 18, 2011 – January 9, 2012 at MoMA in New York City. Organized by John Elderfield it was the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full breadth and depth of de Kooning's career, containing nearly 200 works. Biography[edit] Mature works[edit] Exhibitions[edit] Recognition[edit] Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning Biography - Infos - Art Market. Photo. Photo. Photo. Photo. Photo.