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Title
Untitled
.
Creator
De Kooning, Willem (American painter and sculptor, 1904-1997)
Date
1948-1949
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Abstract Expressionist
Abstract (fine arts style)
Action painting
Modern (styles and periods)
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
Abstraction
Subject
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract works
Abstract paintings
Description
"In
de
Kooning's
black
canvases
the
elimination
of
color
was
conditioned
as
much
by
financial
constraints
as by the
need
to
simplify
pictorial
problems
in the
spirit
of
Analytic
Cubism
. The
deliberately
artless
use
of
shiny
enamel
housepaints
(a
strategy
also
adopted
by
[Jackson]
Pollock
at this
time)
evokes
the
wet
night-time
sidewalks
of
New
York
City
,
whilst
disembodied
lines
,
evocative
of
graffiti
and
other
forms
of
signage
,
skid
,
loop
, and
zigzag
across
the
canvas
like
reckless
city
drivers.
"
(Caption
,
p.33)
; "
De
Kooning
came
closest
to
abstraction
in the
sequence
of
black-and-white
canvases
of
1947-9
,
where
pictorial
planes
lock
together
to
produce
an
'all-over'
pictorial
field
analogous
to
Pollock's
contemporary
productions
.
However
,
reference
to
body
parts
,
buildings
, and
landscape
,
claustrophobically
compacted
together
in a
fierce
collision
of
energies
,
can
still
be
discerned.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.33)
Material
Enamel and oil on paper on composition board
Enamel paint
House paint
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Composition board
Boards (flat objects)
Paper (fiber product)
Measurements
94.8 x 127 cm
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Oil painting (technique)
Work Type
Paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Oil paintings
Repository
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.33, fig.16)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Art Institute of Chicago, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection. © ARS, NY, and DACS, London, 2000. (1981.260)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-12.jpg
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