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The Essential Willem de Kooning (Art Ebook)
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Willem de Kooning
BY CATHERINE MORRIS
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THE ESSENTIAL
WILLEM DE KOONING
by Catherine Morris
Here's the tale of a 22-year-old
immigrant
who
Dutch
stowed away to
illegally
America, only to emerge
as
towering figures of modern
one of the
art.
If ever
you've seen an abstract painting and
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On the eve of the AbEx master’s retrospective, his biographer (and New York Magazine’s former critic) Mark Stevens chats with Jerry Saltz.
De Kooning in his Long Island studio, 1967. (Photo: Ben Van Meerondonk/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
Mark Stevens: Depends on the artist. Gorky found the poverty and lack of recognition soul-crushing. De Kooning suffered too, but he also knew how to be poor. He’d grown up rough, scraping by. He was resourceful. He used to say, “I’m not poor. I’m broke.” I hate it when people make a romance of the garret, but the struggle probably made that generation—or at least the best artists of that generation—unusually serious and committed to their work. They had bet their lives.Jerry Saltz: Mark, the Willem de Kooning biography you and your wife, Annalyn Swan, wrote gave me the most vivid picture of the mid-century New York art world I’ve ever had. One thing that really struck me was the severe poverty these guys experienced—how it seemed to define their whole lives. De Kooning didn’t have a phone until the sixties; he had no bank account. Most of them achieved success later than almost any artistic generation ever. What did this poverty cost them?
J.S.: True. Though it really made some of them unbearable windbags. When I