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Once the three directors were convinced of the validity of their theme, they made a careful selection of artists, visited studios, often insisted on a particular painting. They decided on two free-form spontaneous doodles by the late Jackson Pollock, violent outbursts of vivid colors by Willem de Kooning, a melancholic mood piece by Grace Hartigan, harshly contrasting patterns by Richard Pousette-Dart. They added four morbidly humorous, squashed-face portraits by France...
Jean Dubuffet, the only Ecole de Paris painter whose painting philosophy they felt matched their own. Their final choices ranged from Elaine de Kooning's near realistic portrait of husband Willem to the abstract Black Forms by East Hampton's John Little, in which a human form can be seen with some imagination...
Nearly all the leading U.S. abstract expressionists painted realistically before they turned to abstraction. Nine of them got through the 1930s painting government murals. "The most important thing for all of us was the WPA," says Willem de Kooning, recognized leader of the movement since the death of 44-year-old Jackson Pollock in an auto accident in 1956. The WPA was important in more than one way. It enabled the larval abstractionists to live by painting, established them as professionals and helped to produce the reaction that turned them to, abstraction in the 1940s...
Aboriginal. In Des Moines, Netherlands-born John Willem Woudenberg became a citizen of the U.S., had his name legally changed to John William Woudenberg Forestandmountain...
Curator Baur rounded up works ranging from Old Timer John Marin's Movement-Sea or Mountain, As You Will to Willem de Kooning's splashy February, found examples from the East Coast to the West (see color page). Arranged in such all-encompassing categories as "The Land and the Waters," "Light, Sky and Air" and "Cycles of Life and Season," they make a handsome array of abstract art that seems to add a modicum of rhyme and season to what had hitherto seemed merely decorative or chaotic...