Saturday, March 19, 2011

THINKING OF de kOONING and HIS WOMEN

یاد د کونینگ می افتم
همشهری غربت ما
روز رفتن او .
زن های د کونینگ
در منتهای خشونت
عریان اند 
به عریانی دگرگون حجاب و
دروغ... 


willem de Kooning,the Dutch-American
New York abstract expressionit, with  one of his famous naked women
B.24 Apr 1904,Rotterdam,Holland 
-d.19 March 1997,NEW YORK
He moved to U.S. in mid 1926,and his WOMEN in two series are halmarks of his works
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I,m thinking of de Kooning
my fellow citizen
in exile.
de Kooning women are naked
in the extreme of violence
naked as veil and
lies
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.  And you are right.He started his abstract works in middle age  and was inspired not only by Jackson Pollack,but De Stijl and Flemish Expressionists. He mixed realities with Arshile Gorky's surrealism,the Armenian-American painter who he met in 1933,and the one who in fact pioneered Abstract Expressionism..
Once his women were on exhibit in our NGA and I wrote a note in Farsi,in a Persian Publication,now defunct:
.....called Iran Khabar

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