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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Willem De Kooning"”.
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The Human Figure as an Anchor to Realism in Abstract Expressionism
… in the work of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), and Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948), this thesis examines how they abstracted the human figure. It also draws on art history and contemporary theory to show how Abstract Expressionism art expands away from its roots but …
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Abstrakter Expressionismus: "Nature into Action"
… die historisch-gesellschaftliche Situation nach den existentiellen Erschütterungen durch den Holocaust und den 2. Weltkrieg als auch die Unzufriedenheit mit den ästhetischen Entwürfen der klassischen Moderne führten zur Suche nach einem angemessenen Sujet und einer adäquaten Bildsprache. Dabei …
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Describing Chaos: Willem de Kooning's Collage Painting Asheville and its Relationship to Traditions of Description and Illusionism in Western Art
Any study of Willem de Kooning is inevitably speculative. As an artist he was more concerned that the viewer "never know" and in provoking questions rather than presenting answers. The diverse and disjointed de Kooning literature bears witness to his success in this regard and to the opaque nature …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… upon a sketch, or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, entitled A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul. Subsequently, Clarke assigned 28 parts from the “plan” to different poets living around the country at the time. It has taken some 40 years and five reassignments for the …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… upon a sketch, or “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, entitled A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul. Subsequently, Clarke assigned 28 parts from the “plan” to different poets living around the country at the time. It has taken some 40 years and five reassignments for the …
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Shadow into Parent Light: Beyond Pembrokeshire, Beyond Landscape
… and positions new works I produced during my Residency at Oriel y Pare - Landscape Gallery St Davids (a partnership between National Museum Wales and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park) in 2008-9. The evaluation considers the development of subject matters together with the processes concerned …
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
… of Philip Guston. Discourse regarding avant-garde New York School artists and their knowledge and manipulation of Existentialism has an illustrious rollcall. Dore Ashton and Harold Rosenberg, amongst others have added their powers of exegesis to contemporary work by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, …
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Minimizing Chaos
… patterns, textures, and surfaces found in man-made objects and environments that I find in my daily life and I believe are often overlooked in their aesthetic value. In doing so, I hope to recreate for the viewer the moments of aesthetic discovery that I have found within the patterns, textures, …