Willem de kooning

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Willem de Kooning is a renowned American painter though born in Dutch He started his work in a firm of commercial artists and decorators in 1916 during which he was also attending evening classes at Rotterdam academy of fine arts and techniques . He lived at the time of Abstract Expressionism (an American art movement ) during World War II and so his painting style was referred to as action painting or

Abstract Expressionism . This was a time when most European schools used anti figurative aesthetics

Most of Willem 's paintings were more focused on women figures . His paintings caused a lot of sensations unlike his colleagues ' who painted abstractly with blatant techniques and imagery . After resigning from the Works Progress Administration where he had worked for two years and won a Logan medal of arts , he dedicated his time to creative work as means of supporting himself . He was able to work for the easel painting and mural divisions . He majored on the male figures with the inclusion of colored abstractions

From the name of this movement , most of the paintings were more of rebellion and anarchy . During the period between 1930 and 1950 , the US government was offering sponsorship for artists and Willem was assigned the job of painting murals . In his work he combined a lot of geometrics and figurative . He was quoted saying `its quiet absurd to make...