Word: kooningã
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...many, his works are confrontational, provocative, aggressive, disturbing and even frightening. Yet below the vicious and vigorous black strokes that scar the surface of his work, Willem de Kooning??€™s art is a rigorous redefinition of form, a compelling and captivating investigation of the process of visual expression...
...Kooning??€™s works on paper from 1938 to 1955, in which he represents the female form in varying states of abstraction, comprise the extensive exhibition now open at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. This collection of the artist’s works is an invaluable glimpse at the deeply personal process of thinking, creating, and discovery that lies at the core of de Kooning??€™s legacy. With each drawing and oil sketch, a new artistic progression in the continuous struggle to realize and convey the figure is revealed to the viewer...
...artist’s struggles to eliminate boundaries between drawing and painting, while probing figurative elements for their fundamental abstract forms. They read as transparent entries in the diary of the mind: betraying clearly on the surface the profound influences of artists such as Picasso and Gorky on de Kooning??€™s development...
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