De kooning biography style
De kooning biography style
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Willem de Kooning and his paintings
Willem de Kooning, known as one of the most renowned abstract expressionist in the history of art, has influenced numerous artists during his time and even years after his death.
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American artist who was born in North Rotterdam on April 24, 1904. His father was Leendert de Kooning, and his mother was Cornelia Nobel. Throughout his childhood, he became closer to his mother after the divorce of his parents.
De kooning biography style of art
In 1920 de Kooning became an assistant to Bernard Romein, art director at a large Rotterdam department store. Romein introduced him to the work of the Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl group. De Kooning began to paint, although he apparently viewed the medium with a certain detachment, as he would note in retrospect in i960, "When we went to the academy [in Rotterdam, in the early 1920s] - doing painting, decorating, making a living - young artists were not interested in pa