William de Kooning
Willem DeKooning
Willem DeKooning is considered by many as one of the greatest contemporary artist of his time. He used painting, most effectively figure-ground, and sculptures showing his expression of nature through abstraction. Much of his art comes from the human form and how he decides to construct it. His work is still studied and displayed across the globe, as some of his work is some of the highest priced work ever paid for. He can relate to Coomaraswamy, Maritain, Gilson, and Eliot in many ways especially when discussing their views on nature and how to derive an excellent piece of art. Willem DeKooning became one of the leading artists of the abstract expressionism style. He used traditional portrait and infused it with an abstract style. He began his career practicing on elements like figural composition and still life. This was traditional, actually drawing and painting what he saw. After this type of art DeKooning moved onto abstraction using biomorphic shapes and simple geometric compositions to express the nature of the simple studies made earlier in his career more symbolically. Some of his art proves how the studies he made earlier in his career connects to his form of abstract expressionism. For instance, in Pink Angels, DeKooning represents actually forms such as eyes and other anatomical forms; he then blurs and violently covers the forms to give it an abstract presence. DeKooning realizes how important nature is when creating art. Since nature is the original creation it must be where artist begin to derive their ideas. Jacques Maritain who says proves this,
“God’s creative idea, from the very fact that it is creative, does not receive anything from things, since they do not yet exist. It is in no way formed by its creatable object, it is only and purely formative and forming. And that which will be expressed or manifested in the things made is nothing else than their creator himself, whose transcendent essence is enigmatically
Willem DeKooning is considered by many as one of the greatest contemporary artist of his time. He used painting, most effectively figure-ground, and sculptures showing his expression of nature through abstraction. Much of his art comes from the human form and how he decides to construct it. His work is still studied and displayed across the globe, as some of his work is some of the highest priced work ever paid for. He can relate to Coomaraswamy, Maritain, Gilson, and Eliot in many ways especially when discussing their views on nature and how to derive an excellent piece of art. Willem DeKooning became one of the leading artists of the abstract expressionism style. He used traditional portrait and infused it with an abstract style. He began his career practicing on elements like figural composition and still life. This was traditional, actually drawing and painting what he saw. After this type of art DeKooning moved onto abstraction using biomorphic shapes and simple geometric compositions to express the nature of the simple studies made earlier in his career more symbolically. Some of his art proves how the studies he made earlier in his career connects to his form of abstract expressionism. For instance, in Pink Angels, DeKooning represents actually forms such as eyes and other anatomical forms; he then blurs and violently covers the forms to give it an abstract presence. DeKooning realizes how important nature is when creating art. Since nature is the original creation it must be where artist begin to derive their ideas. Jacques Maritain who says proves this,
“God’s creative idea, from the very fact that it is creative, does not receive anything from things, since they do not yet exist. It is in no way formed by its creatable object, it is only and purely formative and forming. And that which will be expressed or manifested in the things made is nothing else than their creator himself, whose transcendent essence is enigmatically
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