Willem de Kooning citáty

Willem de Kooning byl nizozemsko-americký malíř a sochař, představitel abstraktního expresionismu. Americká výtvarná kritika jeho tvorbu řadí do action painting . Jeho dílo vždy oscilovalo mezi figurativností a abstrakcí. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. duben 1904 – 19. březen 1997
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Willem de Kooning citáty a výroky

„Pollock prolomil ledy.“

Zdroj: [Beckettová, Wendy, 2002, Toulky světem malířství, Levné knihy KMa, 4, 369, 80-7321-260-9]

Willem de Kooning: Citáty anglicky

“There is a time when you just take a walk.... you walk in your own landscape... It has an innocence that is kind of a grand feeling... Somehow I have the feeling that old man Monet might have felt like that, just simple in front of things, or old man Cézanne too... I really understand them now.”

(1980's)as quoted in 'A painter's testament: De Kooning in the Eighties', Robert Storr, Moma-website http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/dekooning/essay.html, reprinted in 1997
1980's

“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..”

Willem de Kooning (1969) by Thomas B. Hess, Content Is A Glimpse, excerpts from an interview with David Sylvester, (BBC), Location, vol.1 no.1 Spring 1963.
1960's

“Jackson has broken the ice for us.”

Quote from Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 130.
De Kooning's comment on Pollock's drip paintings, first shown at Betty Parsons gallery, 1948
1940's

“The texture of experience is prior to everything else.”

Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 150.
1948, in the period of making his painting 'Excavation'
1940's

“The sentiment of the Futurists was simpler. No space. Everything ought to keep going! That's probably the reason they went themselves. Either a man was a machine or else a sacrifice to make machines with..”

De Kooning's speech 'What Abstract Art means to me' on the symposium 'What is Abstract At' - at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5 February, 1951, n.p.
1950's

“It is disastrous to name ourselves.”

Quoted in 'A constant searching of oneself' in Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, p. 6
short answer of Willem de Kooning in a panel discussion in 1950 when the former director of the New York museum of modern Art, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. demanded: We should have a name for which we can blame the artists – for once in history!
1950's

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