Saturday, April 24, 2010

To become historical . . .

Today is the birthday of Willem de Kooning,(April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) , abstract expressionist artist.

He was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston and Clyfford Still.


"Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists." - Willem de Kooning

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