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an abstract painting with many colors and shapes

A leading artist among the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning never believed that abstraction and representation were mutually exclusive. As he stated: “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.” Woman and Bicycle, one of a series of…

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an abstract painting with multiple colors and lines on it's surface, depicting a woman sitting in a chair

Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52. Oil and metallic paint on canvas. 6' 3 7/8" x 58" (192.7 x 147.3 cm). Purchase. 478.1953. © 2025 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting & Sculpture

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an abstract painting with black and white colors

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 May 04, 2008 - September 21, 2008 The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street This is the best Modern Painting exhibition in New York right now. I have too many thoughts about this event to fit them all into one article. At the moment I have seen the exhibition only once and I want to take more time to view it again and consider its implications. First Room, First Impressions. I am a painter. Saturday…

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