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View all 33 artworks. Elaine de Kooning lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of American Abstract Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Bacchus #3
During a visit to Paris in 1976, de Kooning saw a...
- John F. Kennedy, 1963
Upon returning to New York City, de Kooning worked...
- Sunday Afternoon, 1957
Shortly after receiving her professorship at the University...
- Self-Portrait, 1946
In the mid 1940s, Elaine and Willem were poorer than ever,...
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Elaine de Kooning (Nova York, 12 de março de 1918 –...
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Elaine Marie de Kooning (gebürtig Elaine Marie Fried; * 12....
- Bacchus #3
- Childhood and Education
- The Union Years
- Elaine Meets Willem de Kooning
- Elaine and Bill Grow Apart
- Painting, Writing, and Teaching
- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning was born Elaine Marie Catherine Fried in 1918 (although she would later claim her birth year was 1920) to Marie and Charles Frank Fried, a plant manager for the Bond Bread Company in Brooklyn, New York. She was the first of four children, and they lived in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. Elaine's younger sister, Marjo...
While attending classes at the Leonardo da Vinci School, de Kooning became politically active, representing the school at meetings of the leftist John Reed Club. At these meetings she attempted to organize students into a new auxiliary union for artists, simply called the Artists' Union. It was also at the John Reed Club meetings where she met arti...
In the autumn of 1938, Robert Jonas introduced her to the 34-year-old Dutch emigre Willem (Bill) de Kooning, but there is little evidence to suggest any romantic connection at their initial meeting. Elaine was living with Resnick at the time, who had supposedly commented once to her, "Bill is going to be the greatest painter in the country." Shortl...
Elaine and Bill grew increasingly distant from one another early in their marriage. After he rented his own studio space on 4th Avenue, Bill began to spend increasing amounts of time with other artists in the neighborhood, including Franz Kline, Conrad Marca-Relli, and John Ferren. Through their friends Rudy Burckhardt and the dance critic Edwin De...
Throughout the 1940s, de Kooning concentrated on portraiture. She made many striking self-portraits and recalled some of the earliest painting lessons learned from Bill, "Everything was a matter of tension between objects or edges and space." Her early self-portraits depict her in her studio, seated with sketchbook in hand, surrounding by the objec...
Following the assassination of President Kennedy, de Kooning stopped painting for a year and took a teaching appointment at the University of California, Davis. Beginning in the mid-1960s, de Kooning became more prolific than ever as a teacher, teaching at universities and colleges across the country, including Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon Univ...
With an exhibition of her portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., in 2015 and with the inclusion of several of her paintings in the 2016 Denver Art Museum exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism, fortunately Elaine de Kooning's legacy has received increased attention in recent years. Her large, colorful, gestural works o...
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- March 12, 1918
- Brooklyn, New York
- February 1, 1989
They painted in his loft at 143 West 21st Street, and he was known for his harsh criticism of her work, "sternly requiring that she draw and redraw a figure or still life and insisting on fine, accurate, clear linear definition supported by precisely modulated shading." [10] .
Learn about Elaine de Kooning, a prominent American painter and wife of Willem de Kooning, who created energetic figurative works influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Explore her 432 artworks on artnet, including portraits, paintings, and prints.
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Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning (Dutch: [də ˈkoːnɪŋ], née Fried; March 12, 1918 – February 1, 1989) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for Art News magazine.
Elaine de Kooning (born March 12, 1920, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died February 1, 1989, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.) was an American painter, teacher, and art critic who is perhaps best known for her portraits.
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Mar 1, 2022 · Emphasized by strong draftsmanship, de Kooning’s figurative paintings expressed her fascination with movement, perhaps most notably in her depictions of basketball players, bullfights, and the sweeping dynamism of the Bacchus fountain at the Jardin du Luxembourg, which inspired an entire series of works in her later years.
