Talk:Willem de Kooning
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale. [FAQ] (If you rated the article, please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) |
||
 |
This article is supported by the Arts and Entertainment work group. | ||
Some of this article may have been plagiarized from the Encyclopedia Britannica, present edition.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=1750
"He had his first one-man show, which consisted of his black-and-white enamel compositions, at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York in 1948 and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1948 and at the Yale School of Art in 1950–51."
That sentence appears exactly in both articles.
_____-
"The savagely applied pigment and the use of colours that seem vomited on his canvas combine ..."
this statement is not only presumptuous and incorrect, it also reveals complete lack of insight into the actual way in which de Kooing worked - early-career, mid-career, or late-career. it is being applied to the period of his most famous "Woman" paintings, but exhibits an obvious confusion of the psychological implications (or, more acurately, interpretations) of these paintings, with the technique in which they were painted. De Kooing painted with a precision-like understainding of his materials, and never applied anything "savagely".
this confusion of technique with interpretation also reeks of a kind of politically adolescent fixation on possible psychological implications of these "Woman" paintings (which can be seen in the statements following that sentence) that young art history students are quite fond of. unfortunately, these interpretations usually reveal more about the writer (or student) than the painter. that is a different subject, however, and more open to debate.
