Willem de Kooning has been my largest inspiration on my own work to date. Whether my paintings look similar to his or not doesn't concern me; it's his method that I base my artistic lifestyle on. He never got too attached to any paint stroke or charcoal dash. His work was as a machine driven by the will of the painting, not the other way around.
His work was surely focused on figure painting which may seem very odd to someone when they look at a painting like the one above. His work was not concerned with what words it could categorize itself into, but the limits that it could break past.
He lived as one of the New York avante-garde until his death in 1997.
De Kooning Presentation, Capp.pptx
Outline and Bibliography.pdf
Such an interesting idea that he was "driven by the will of the painting". Does that imply that meaning is to be made from the painting itself, and not the author? Does this reiterate Barthes' understanding of the Death of the Author?
ReplyDeleteI love that you base your artistic lifestyle, I think when having idols most people tend to want to be them even if subconsciously through their work, but you are also still you!
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