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Do you know me?---Willem de Kooning
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Woo hoo! Good job Ruth!Yep, you got it!
I wrote a paper on him when I was in grad school. That’s how come I knew. I’m usually pretty bad with these bios.
The last paragraph about the dementia and dying at 92 was a bit of a giveaway... at least to me, but Ruth was quicker ;-)You guys doing anything special today?
Hit by my husband’s death and two months later the election of T, I’m still struggling for normalcy. And right in step with my mood, we’re still experiencing our normal June Gloom here. But if the fog and clouds lift some of my family and I will be able to watch the official fireworks from 3 cities while sitting on my patio.
Well it talked a lot about his Women series but I thought that would be a dead giveaway. But you did well, Ruth!Not me, Dirk. I live right next to an Air Force base with the jets going all day long and they drive me crazy so on days like this I go to a movie to stay as far away as possible. Haha
During this period, ________________became interested in German variant of {movement} becoming particularly interested in its emphasis on purity of color and form...
After living for a year in {country} in {year}, _______returned to {city} before traveling as a stowaway to the United States
He worked his way to Boston on a coal ship, then worked as a house painter in Hoboken, New Jersey, before moving across the Hudson River to Manhattan. There he took jobs in commercial art, designed window displays, and produced fashion advertisements, work which would consume him for several years.
_________worked on projects for the mural division from {years} and for the first time, like many {nationality} artists, he was able to focus his attention entirely on fine art instead of commercial painting.
When asked about the controversy by art critic {___________} ___________replied, "In a way, if you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint today, when you think about it, since we have this problem of doing or not doing it. But then all of a sudden it was even more absurd not to do it. So I fear that I'll have to follow my desires." ________________ felt that one should not restrict oneself to certain ways of painting, since at the end of the day it's all paint on canvas, whether figural or abstract, so why not paint whatever one wants.
________________ explained to one interviewer, "In a way I feel that the Women of the {decade} were a failure. I see the horror in them now, but I didn't mean it then. I wanted them to be funny and not look so sad and downtrodden like the women in the paintings in the {decade} so I made them satiric and monstrous, like sibyls." Others defended the series as archetypes inspired by the work of ancient Mesopotamian idols, Old Masters, and modern artists.
Living and painting on Long Island throughout the {decade}, ____________ created large works in bright tones with simpler, more restrained gestures than those that had characterized his earlier style. His work continued to attract high praise and looked like the work of an artist still in full charge of his talents. In the late-{decade}, Elaine returned to her husband's life to try to make him healthy after decades of hard drinking. By the end of the decade, _________'s memory began to be severely impaired, and he seemed to be suffering from Alzheimer's-like dementia. After Elaine died, came under the guardianship of his daughter, until his death at the age of 92.
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