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  • NAME: Willem de Kooning
  • OCCUPATION: Painter
  • BIRTH DATE: April 24, 1904
  • DEATH DATE: March 19, 1997
  • EDUCATION: Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • PLACE OF DEATH: East Hampton, New York
  • AKA: William de Kooning

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Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American painter who was one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism.

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By about 1945, Willem de Kooning’s two main tendencies, painting figures and abstractions, seemed to fuse perfectly, notably in Pink Angels. By 1955, de Kooning turned to a symbolic aspect of woman, as suggested by the title of his Woman as Landscape, in which the vertical figure seems almost absorbed into the abstract background. His later work showed an increasing preoccupation with landscape.

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