Your 10 questions with Edward Dolman Oct 31, 2009
I have become very interested in the works of Willem de Kooning. Hes a great abstract expressionist and he did a series of womens portraits or depiction you cant call them portraits because they are so abstract in the 1950s and 1960s. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
'Art of Richard Mayhew' at MoAD Oct 17, 2009
He studied with Edwin Dickinson, an American Impressionist, and Reuben Tam, an American landscape artist, and hung out at the Cedar Tavern in New York City, where he got to know some of the great Abstract Expressionists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Mayhew, who is Indian and African American, also was a founder of Spiral, an organization started in the 1960s to fight for racial equality through art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
What will happen to the reputation of Hyman Bloom, one of Boston’s most celebrated artists? Oct 11, 2009
Why, despite tremendous acclaim in his 20s and 30s, is he not as well known as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, both of whom admired him and even credited him with helping to kick-start abstract expressionism. Why, moreover, if he had no serious rivals in the Boston area as a painter of consequence, was Bloom never given a show at the Museum of Fine Arts. (Boston Globe)
Charles Seliger, 83; painted jewels of imaginary nature Oct 10, 2009
While fellow artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning created high drama with drips and bravura brushwork on billboard-size canvases, Mr. Seliger conjured his own private worlds on canvases and Masonite boards that rarely exceeded the dimensions of a cafeteria tray. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism, the belief that the artist s undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious, he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous... (Boston Globe)
Gallery Glimpses Oct 9, 2009
Featuring the work of 42 poets and artists, from Dylan Thomas to Frank O Hara, and Helen Phillips to Willem de Kooning, this 1960 portfolio represents a landmark collaboration between the visual and literary arts. Each print closely integrates text and image, including a poem written in the hand of its author and imagery created through a wide range of innovative print techniques. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Gorky collection finds unusual home in Whistler House Museum Sep 26, 2009
The harsh struggles and terrible suffering of his early life in Armenia, write Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan in their biography of Gorky s friend, Willem de Kooning, gave him an ancient, fated air that he was not afraid to cultivate; he sometimes seemed to play the part of an Old Testament figure who happened to be in New York. Several of the portraits, in a linear idiom reminiscent of Matisse, are of Metzger herself, and there s a striking portrait of her daughter, Margaret, done in the style... (Boston Globe)
Bernie Fuchs, 76; illustrator of magazines defined an era Sep 22, 2009
He even experimented with bold designs based on the abstract expressionism movement popularized by painters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. One vivid example, commissioned by McCall s magazine in the late 1950s, was a portrait of two young couples relaxing in a small room after dinner. (Boston Globe)
Read Indepth Article Sep 18, 2009
Willem De Kooning, Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock would be the three most influential painters although I was introduced to Rembrandt and Bruegel as a very young child whilst growing up in Amsterdam. " Related Links: Indepth Arts Resources for Belgium Other Important Exhibitions in Belgium Quick Arts Access: Antwerp (38) Brussels (81) - Museum Alfons Blomme - Galerie Border Line - Barn Gallery, Ringwood State Park - Agnes Bugera Gallery - Complesso Monumentale Belvedere di San Leucio - Galerie... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Unfair summation of groundbreaking artist Sep 9, 2009
Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning hailed Bloom as the groundbreaking leader of their movement, and in the 1940s and 50s he was considered one of the most important artists in the world. His inspiring and colorful paintings of chandeliers, Christmas trees, s. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
My ant could paint that! Sep 6, 2009
Writing about action painters like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, who had abandoned traditional components of painting like figure and composition in favor of an improvised exploration of mark-making and materials, mid-century critic Harold Rosenberg proclaimed that what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. In other words, art became less a discipline or craft than a behavior: a repeated set of bodily gestures and interactions with materials that resulted in an... (Boston Globe)
Don Bryant files lawsuit against Bryan Cave, Brody Sep 5, 2009
Millionaire Don Bryant is taking on St. Louis leading law firm in a fight over a prenup with his ex-wife and a valuable art collection that includes works by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Bryant is seeking an award that could total more than $10 million from and a partner at the firm, Lawrence Brody, who has been recognized nationally for his expertise in handling estate matters. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy Aug 25, 2009
His influence - either direct or indirect - on the American generation that included Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Larry Rivers is renowned. Among Hofmann s students in Provincetown were Lee Krasner, who is represented in this exhibition by a small and haunting self-portrait in pencil, and Robert De Niro (the actor s father), whose muscular and vigorous study of a seated male nude is the strongest (the most intense, concentrated, and convincing) of many similar... (Boston Globe)
High and Low Relief Aug 17, 2009
Willem de Kooning once remarked of Saint-Gaudens, He got the guy to sit right on the horse. You know how hard that is. (New Yorker)
David Hannah, William Tucker: pairing of ideas May 31, 2009
Tucker has renovated the tradition of modeling sculpture in plaster for casting in bronze, a lineage deliberately stymied and disfigured by Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and Willem de Kooning. Tucker has digested this rambunctious history. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Iconic Soutine Painting Returned to Private Ownership in First-of-Its-Kind Settlement May 21, 2009
1) is an outstanding example of 20th century expressionist art that makes "deliberate reference to a long tradition of the subjects of butchers, market-stalls, and game in paintings by Rembrandt, Chardin, and Goya, whose works Soutine studied in his visits to the Louvre." Soutine's work has also been described as being especially significant during the 1950s to painters such as Willem de Kooning. Media Contacts: Kathleen Lacey Edelman Ph: +1-212-704-8255 Email: Christopher Mittendorf Edelman Ph:... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
#93 SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK May 15, 2009
Make sure to stop at the town's Parrish Art Museum, for an impressive collection of American art, from Jackson Pollock to Willem de Kooning and current artists, Elizabeth Peyton and Chuck Close. Parish also hosts film nights, and has its Midsummer Party on July 11. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Carving reputations Apr 19, 2009
Even the stairwell is crowded with paintings by friends, among them Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. Hundreds of pieces of his African art collection that are not being auctioned, stand on furniture and crowd illuminated cases. (The Economist)
Owners put expensive art works up for cash Mar 10, 2009
Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol are among the pieces collectors have leveraged in recent months. The Metropolitan Opera put up two famed Marc Chagall murals in its lobby as collateral, and renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz recently borrowed $15 million against her entire collection of images. (MSNBC -- Business)
An eye for the ladies Mar 2, 2009
Like his Dutch countryman Willem de Kooning more than half a century later, Van Dongen made the figure of woman a vessel in which to hold the anxieties of the modern age. Captivated by the freedoms and pleasures of her suddenly available body (prostitution was rampant), harrowed by the infections that lurked in her tumid, rentable flesh (this was the golden age of syphilis, after all), alienated by the sheer fact of her primordial procreative potential (one painting in the show pictures his wife... (Globe and Mail)
Law locks up endowments Mar 2, 2009
That's what happened at Brandeis University, which originally planned to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its more than 7,000 works, including pieces by Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns. After much criticism, the school backed off. (News & Observer)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
The great abstract painters of the mid-20th century - the so-called New York School, which included Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock - were all heirs to the genre who, in a certain sense, helped push it to its breaking point. Gorky and Rothko are known for their emphatically non-representational paintings, but their art evolved within the landscape tradition, so even their late work, which initially appears totally abstract, eventually reveals important vestiges... (Boston Globe)
PAPER: Photographer Annie Leibovitz pawns life's work for loan to pay her mortgage... Feb 26, 2009
The company has recently taken in - and put into secure and climate-controlled specialist art warehouses for safekeeping - pieces by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Henry Moore and Picasso. Clients have also borrowed against vintage film posters, antique teddy bears and valuable scientific instruments. (The Drudge Report)
Photographer Leibovitz pawns rights to her life's work Feb 26, 2009
Among artworks recently been taken in by the company are pieces by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Henry Moore and even Picasso. Cash-strapped clients have borrowed against vintage film posters, antique teddy bears and valuable scientific instruments. (The Age, Australia -- National)
Leibovitz pawns life's work in a scramble for cash Feb 25, 2009
Among the art works that have recently been taken in by the company, and put into secure and climate- controlled specialist art warehouses for safekeeping, are pieces by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Henry Moore and even Picasso. Cash-strapped clients have borrowed money against vintage film posters, antique teddy bears and valuable scientific instruments. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Peter Schjeldahl: A Marlene Dumas retrospective. Feb 8, 2009
The art historian Richard Shiff s surprising comparison, in the show s catalogue, of Dumas s method with that of Willem de Kooning adds up. Like that great Dutchman, she draws in a manner opposed to drawing s descriptive function, keeping her line loose and a-crackle, in gladiatorial combat with the subjects that occasion it. (New Yorker)
Brandeis' Attempt to Turn Art into Assets Feb 7, 2009
Meanwhile there was the Rose, with its collection of more than 7,100 objects, including works by major American artists like Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. In 2007 the collection was assessed by the auction house Christie's to be worth around $350 million. (Time.com)
