AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Willem De Kooning, Avant-Garde, Barnett Newman
25 Aug 2016
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New york school avante garde: willem de kooning. All of these artists depict the transition from figurative to abstraction. Shows de kooning"s admiration for ingres and. He moves back in forth between representation neoclassical drawing in general (standing man) and nonrepresentation (pink. What makes him different from rothko is that throughout the 1950s he maintains a continuous alternation between nonrepresentation and representation. As though the very opposition between abstraction and figuration could no longer be resolved the pique of abstract avante garde in america (1950s) in the work of rothko and barnett newman and jackson pollock. Often times he paints on top of newsprint and collages arranged by chance. While these compositions are arbitrary, there is still control but it is irrational. Pink angel demonstrates control while allowing for a glimpse of the irrational and arbitrary there is another interpretation of abstraction as a technical glitch.
