Art Painting

Art Painting

In the course of their history, painting has taken different forms depending on the different media and techniques that have guided and have become of each one of them. Until the twentieth century, the painting is based, almost invariably in the art of drawing. Painting is not a representation of reality but a reflection of him and the painting does not represent a world figure, but nominally scattered in the colors, fonts, and an area of deception and the whiteness that hides fraught with light hanging over the shape to highlight its features and read the details and features submerged in a sea of whiteness itself. 

Willem de Kooning

One of the most prolific and dynamic artists in the artistic scene of New York City 1940's. Willem de Kooning was born in the Netherlands in 1904 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926 Although Villa De Kooning did not officially belong to the direction of abstract Expressionism, in some of his mature paintings are widely evident the effect of this motion, which was expressed in an aggressive manner of writing and abstract system of images. Particularly noticeable is the effect of the work "Excavation", dated 1950 Willem de Kooning united love of surrealism to free association with the spatial parameters of analytical Cubism to create works incredible complexity. In 1938 he began work on the first a series of paintings entitled "Women» (Women), to which he will return throughout his career. This series will be visiting card artist. "Woman VI» (Woman VI), written in 1953 city ??- the latest and perhaps the most abstract painting of the entire series. 

The female figure is executed in screaming pink, red and white colors, with sharp, almost rudely outlined eyes and mouth. In a series of "Women" was influenced not only the above-mentioned trends of the XX century, but also the methods of the ancient art, with which they were established, such as cave paintings in the cave of Lascaux and the sculpture of Venus of Willendorf. These pictures are shocking not only because of its apparent hostility to women, which is still a subject of discussion in artistic circles, but also because Willem de Kooning turned to the image of a human figure at a time when the dogma of the art world is absolutely recognized only an abstraction. And yet, since 1960. and until the death of the artist in 1997 at the age of 93 years, his work became differ by more abstraction. Willem de Kooning continued to paint even after the confirmation of the diagnosis physicians on the development in his 1980's. Alzheimer's syndrome. Many of the works created during this period his life, preserve the lyrical aspects of his earlier works, but they have also seen the calm that at first his canvases were not observed. The volume and force of impact of works by Willem de Kooning, allows you to put it into one among the most prominent artists in American art of XX century. "This fierce woman, whom he portrayed, is not my twin. He had three more years, and it already ...