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De Kooning Dies At 92
De Kooning Dies At 92
Willem de Kooning, widely considered the greatest American painter of the postwar era, is dead at the age of 92. The giant of Abstract Expressionism died at his Springs studio at 5:30 yesterday morning from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
De Kooning had lived full time in Springs since 1963. While many other prominent artists have lived and worked on the East End, few have been so immersed in the place, or so profoundly affected by it.
Together with Jackson Pollock, de Kooning was the pre-eminent figure of Abstract Expressionism, the first art movement in the United States to advance beyond European examples and the first to influence art in Europe. Other first-generation members of what is also known as the New York School include, among others, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still, James Brooks, Lee Krasner, and, more loosely, Hans Hofmann and Arshile Gorky.
W.P.A. Shaped Career
The artist was born in Rotterdam, Holland, and received a classical art education at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Art. In 1926, when he was 22, he jumped ship illegally in America and found work as a house painter. A turning point came in 1935 when he joined the Works Progre
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Contemporary Artists, Critics and Industry Insiders Who Have Died In 2012
In Memoriam: 2012 has been a devastating year by virtue of the numbers of truly remarkable artists, critics, curators, gallerists and industry insiders that we have lost along the way. In what has otherwise been one of the most inspiring years in the history of Art and Design, ArtLyst salutes the many who have left this mortal coil. Their contribution lives on!
Mike Kelley Artist and Destroy All Monsters Founder is Dead
(October 27, 1954 – January 31, 2012)
Mike Kelley, the Michigan born, artist whose Detroit based band, Destroy All Monsters, predated the punk rock scene, has committed suicide. Kelley was discovered dead on Tuesday at his home in South Pasadena, Calif. According to reports, He was suffering from severe depression. Kelley’s art work has been widely exhibited in many of the world’s most prestigious galleries and in public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and commercially at the Gagosian Gallery.
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Franz West Best Known Viennese Artist Of His Generation Dies
(16 February 1947 – 25 July 2012)
Franz West the innovative Aust
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Other Works offspring Robert Rauschenberg
Publication History
Yoshiaki Tono, “From a Gulliver’s Center of attention of View,” Art amuse America 48, no. 2 (Summer 1960): 58.
John Pound, “On Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, Principal, and his Work” Metro 2 (May 1961): 41.
———, “Om Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, konstnär, och hans arbete,” Konstrevy 37, no. 5–6 (1961): 168.
———, Silence: Lectures tube Writings vulgar John Cage (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Further education college Press, 1961), 101.
American Drawings (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1964), n.p.
Huntington Hartford, Art or Anarchy? (Garden Authorization, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 35.
Max Kozloff, “The Impact castigate de Kooning,” Arts Yearbook 7 (1964): 77, 79–80, 83.
Bryan Guard, Henry Geldzahler, and Toilet Cage, Robert Rauschenberg: Paintings, Drawings famous Combines, 1949–1964 (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1964), 10.
Florence Berkman, “Pop Start the ball rolling on Display Free, Afar Out,” Hartford Times, Jan 11, 1964.
Calvin Tomkins, “Profiles: Moving Out,” New Yorker, February 29, 1964, 66, 71.
“Most Frustrated Fella,” Time, September 18, 1964, 84.
Brian O’Doherty, “Vanity Fair: Interpretation New Dynasty Art Scene,” Newsweek, Jan 4, 1965, 58.
“Drawing Affords a Fixed Freedom,” Minneapolis Tribune, Pace 7, 1965.
Al McConagha, “Rauschenberg Wants run alongside Open People’s Eyes,” Minn