Nadine de kooning biography
- De Kooning proves that the idea of the ever-forward march of modernism is a crock—that all art is contemporary art.
- Jerry Saltz: Mark, the Willem de Kooning biography you and your wife, Annalyn Swan, wrote gave me the most vivid picture of the mid-century New.
- Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, coauthors of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Willem de Kooning, speak with Michael Cary about the research and.
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Expressionism
Modernist art movement
Not to be confused with Abstract Expressionism or Expressivism.
Edvard Munch, The Scream, c.1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 × 73 cm, National Gallery of Norway, inspired 20th-century expressionists. | |
| Years active | The years before WWI and the interwar years |
|---|---|
| Location | Predominantly Germany |
| Major figures | Artists loosely categorized within such groups as Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter; the Berlin Secession, the School of Paris and the Dresden Secession |
| Influenced | American Figurative Expressionism, generally, and Boston Expressionism, in particular |
Expressionism is a modernistmovement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.[1][2] Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning[3] of emotional experience rather than physical reality.[3] (Photo: Ben Van Meerondonk/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)•
On the eve of the AbEx master’s retrospective, his biographer (and New York Magazine’s former critic) Mark Stevens chats with Jerry Saltz.
Mark Stevens: Depends on the artist. Gorky found the poverty and lack of recognition soul-crushing. De Kooning suffered too, but he also knew how to be poor. He’d grown up rough, scraping by. He was resourceful. He used to say, “I’m not poor. I’m broke.” I hate it when people make a romance of the garret, but the struggle probably made that generation—or at least the best artists of that generation—unusually serious and committed to their work. They had bet their lives.Jerry Saltz: Mark, the Willem de Kooning biography you and your wife, Annalyn Swan, wrote gave me the most vivid picture of the mid-century New York art world I’ve ever had. One thing that really struck me was the severe poverty these guys experienced—how it seemed to define their whole lives. De Kooning didn’t have a phone until the sixties; he had no ba •
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