Later in life, de
Kooning explored landscapes and even sculpture, before Alzheimer's disease made it impossible to continue on.
Not exact matches
Another influential aspect of de
Kooning's work over the decades has been his ability to
explore abstract forms in some works while, at the same time,
exploring frankly figurative or
landscape motifs in other works.
From the late 60s to the late 70s de
Kooning explored the figure with new gestural liquidity, merging the figure into
landscape and working in sculpture for the first time.
Organized in groupings that
explore varied themes — such as «Women, Men, and Other Beasts,» «Primal
Landscapes,» «An Art of Memory,» and «Vicissitudes of the Grid» — the show features key works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Willem and Elaine de
Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Philip Pearlstein, and Robert Rauschenberg.
It
explores themes emerging through the collection like portraits of children, abstracted
landscapes and portraits of artists, such as Irving Penn's Frederick Kiesler and Willem de
Kooning, New York, 1960.
The Dallas Museum of Art will premiere an exhibition
exploring how modern and contemporary artists — from Childe Hassam and Edward Hopper to Willem De
Kooning, Gerhard Richter and Catherine Opie — have drawn upon coastal
landscapes as a source of inspiration, metaphor and mystery in their work.