Word: willem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly all the artists of the New York School, beginning with Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, were to some extent liberated and inspired by his example. The measure of his work can be taken from an exhibition now on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City...
...Hirshhorn Museum's "Directions 1981." Among them, these three sample the work of some 150 painters, sculptors, land artists, photographers, video and film makers. Some of the artists, like Richard Diebenkora, Harry Callahan or Ellsworth Kelly, are very well known and represented by first-class work. Others, like Willem de Kooning, are equally famous but showing weak things. Still others, such as the New York Artist Julian Schnabel (with his lumpen-expressionist jumbles of sticky paint and broken crockery), are immensely fashionable with collectors for reasons the work does not make clear. But nobody, not even the most dedicated...
...interest was music, and he frequented the concert halls. Her interest was art, and she spent her evenings in The Club in Greenwich Village and other haunts of the then avant-garde New York School of painting. At the nearby Cedar Bar, Jackson Pollock caroused, Robert Motherwell discoursed, Willem de Kooning waxed disputatious. Her hair was blond, her figure svelte, her age happily indeterminate (actually mid-30s) and her artistic commitment impeccable. She was on their wave length. Franz Kline, who was perfecting a slashing, black-and-white action painting style, took her with him to study Ingres...
DIED. Philip Guston, 66, influential U.S. painter; of a heart attack; in Woodstock, N. Y. The Canadian-born son of Russian immigrants, Guston joined Jackson Pollock, a schoolmate of his in Los Angeles, and other contemporaries like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko in forging the abstract expressionist movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the past decade he returned from his often dreamlike works to representational painting. His explanation: "I got sick and tired of all the purity. I wanted to tell stories...