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De Kooning once summarized the history of female representations as “the idol, the Venus, the nude.” In Woman, I, he both alludes to and subverts such conventions, while possibly referencing the long-held societal ambivalence between reverence for and fear of the feminine.
Between 1950 and 1953, de Kooning made the series for which he is best known, the Women, and this painting from approximately 1952 is a fine example of the subject. The small scale of this painting on paper belies both the potency of the iconic image and the dramatic dynamism of the vigorous, gestural brushwork.
The strange story behind Willem de Kooning’s Woman I. On the anniversary of the Dutch abstract expressionist's birth, we tell the tale behind one of his infamous works. By the middle of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning had pretty much made it.
These three apparitional beauties were participants in the sensational debut of de Kooning’s Woman series of the early 1950s. Along with four other paintings and numerous drawings, their presentation at New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery in the spring of 1953 pro-voked a considerable stir in the excitable art world of the time.
10 de abr. de 2020 · Título original: Woman III. Colección particular. Técnica: Óleo (170 x 12c cm.) Escrito por: Clara Mas Casals. «El francés», así llamaba Jackson Pollock a su colega de andanzas artísticas y nocturnas, Willem de Kooning.
Title: Woman. Artist: Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York) Date: 1944. Medium: Oil and charcoal on canvas. Dimensions: 45 7/8 × 31 3/4 in. (116.5 × 80.6 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: From the Collection of Thomas B. Hess, Gift of the heirs of Thomas B. Hess, 1984.
6 de dic. de 2023 · Dr. Zucker: [1:23] Willem de Kooning is one of the central Abstract Expressionists. He was friends with Jackson Pollock. He was spending time with Mark Rothko. Yet, here’s a man who goes back to the human figure. [1:33] And large-scale seated female figure goes all the way back in the history of art to the Madonna.
