Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George H. Mabry, commercial law, College of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
George H. Mabry, commercial law, College of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
...painting, turned out glowing portraits of her own children. But she got bored with the soft outlines and warm colors of the nursery, went outside into the cold, hard northern light. Soon she was doing angular, boldly drawn studies of Dutch cities, and sculptural, hard-bitten portraits of Rotterdam prostitutes, rugged Low Country peasants and miners as well as artists and intellectuals...
Raised in Rotterdam, De Kooning left school at twelve, worked as sign painter and house painter while studying at Rotterdam's art academy at night: "I met a lot of fellows and we became a little like bohemians. We tried to paint like the impressionists. Some of us imitated Mondrian, too, but we didn't really get it very good." At 21, De Kooning came to the U.S., knowing only one word of English: "Yes." He got a job as a commercial artist, visited the art galleries in his lunch hours and painted by himself on Sundays...
Like most Zadkine sculptures, his new memorial for Rotterdam combined the soft, delicate architecture of flesh with slashed and squared-off chunks derived, at least in part, from cubist painting. The figure billowed like smoke from blocky underpinnings. The arms, as if elongated by its terror, writhed upwards to hold back the sky in a futile, contorted gesture of self-preservation. The statue looked like a cross between Atlas and a frightened child, which was perhaps just what its subject required...