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Willem de Kooning (/ d ə ˈ k uː n ɪ ŋ / də KOO-ning, [2] Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam , in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. [ 3 ]
By 1955, de Kooning had moved away from painting the human form and continued with the abstract rendering of the architecture and communities of his surroundings in New York City. Some of de Kooning's 1955 oil paintings prominent at that time were Police Gazette, Composition, Gotham News, Saturday Night, and Easter Monday.
Holidays in Nazi Germany were primarily centred on important political events, serving as a form of political education and reinforcing propaganda themes. [1] Major national holidays were therefore controlled by Joseph Goebbels at the Reich Propaganda Ministry, and were often accompanied by mass meetings, parades, speeches and radio broadcasts.
“The Heist,” the true story of the theft of Willem de Kooning’s iconic “Woman-Ochre” from an Arizona art museum, is in the works from “The Love Bugs” director Allison Otto ...
de Kooning: An American Master is a biography of Dutch American painter Willem de Kooning, a prominent figure in the American movement of abstract expressionism, specially in the 1940s and 1950s. Often compared to Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky , de Kooning was considered one of the more inspirational and influential artists of the 20th ...
In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s oil painting Woman-Ochre vanished from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson.The $160 million work of art remained missing until 2017, when it was found hanging in the former home of Jerry and Rita Alter, a deceased New Mexico married couple.
Author and minister Lloyd C. Douglas wrote "The Robe," about Roman soldiers gambling over possession of Christ's garment at the base of his cross, after the suggestion of a Canton woman, Hazel McCann.
U.S. stocks closed higher as investors digested a slew of corporate earnings reports, including some from the so-called Magnificent 7. The broad S&P 500 index closed up 0.51%, or 31.86 points, to ...