Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials Tapa blanda - 2010

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Paperback / softback. New. A study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, from the 1940s through the 1970s. Using scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports, it informs art historical interpretations, presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work.

Willem de Kooning a quintessential abstract expressionist and one of the most influential painters of the 20th century forged an original style by manipulating both conventional and non-art materials in extreme ways. Whether he was coarsening the texture of alkyd paint with quartz and ground glass, applying a flurry of oil paints, cooking oil and water onto his canvases, or mixing plaster of Paris into retail house paint, de Kooning used his doctored paints to convey a unique artistic vision.
This meticulously researched book is the first systematic study of de Koonings creative process that applies comprehensive scientific examination of the artists pigments, binders, and supports to art historical interpretations.
Anyone interested in modern art history, from curators to conservators, students to practicing artists, will find in these pages new insights into the way an artist can achieve radical changes in style

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Museum Publications. New. 2010. Paperback. 160606021X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 112 pages; 34 color and 17 b/w illustrations; 6 graphs. Description: "This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather than rigorous technical analysis. This is the first systematic study of de Kooning's creative process to use comprehensive scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports to inform art historical… Leer más