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Elaine de Kooning

(1918–1989) Painter

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Elaine de Kooning was a painter.

Quick Facts About Elaine de Kooning

Born: March 12, 1918
Died: February 1, 1989
Profession: Painter

About Elaine de Kooning

[Wikidata] American painter (1918-1989)... | [Wikipedia] Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning was an American painter and art critic. A key contributor to the abstract expressionist and Figurative Expressionist movements, she wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for ARTnews magazine. She was married to Dutch-American arti

Quotes by Elaine de Kooning

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you…

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Again and again

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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

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Events

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I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering…

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Firsts

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Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

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Art

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I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

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Character

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For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space…

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All kinds

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Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is…

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Hard

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Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's…

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Art

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Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak…

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Art

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