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Woman Series

De Kooning’s well-known Woman series, begun in 1950 the time after meeting his future wife and culminating in woman VI, owns much to Picasso, not least in the aggressive, penetrative breaking apart of the figure, and the spaces around it. Picasso’s late works show signs that he, in turn, saw images of works by Pollock and de Kooning.

Woman VI

In 1953, Woman, a series of abstract works of art painted by Willem de Kooning, shocked the public who visited de Kooning’s third one-man show at the Sidney Janis Gallery in Manhattan. The last painting of this series, Woman VI, is displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Art as part of the Postwar Abstraction collection since the 1955 Carnegie International Exhibition.

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Have these contributions been added to the article? I clicked on your username but didn't see anything. If not, they look great, so go ahead and add them as you see fit! Also, don't forget your page numbers! Aolivex (talk) 18:45, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Research Articles

I would like to work on the page of Willem de Kooning, his paintings,Women series and Women VI, the one at the Carnegie Museum of Art. I listed some of the sources below that I would like to research on. One problem for my project is that Willem de Kooning page is currently facing the potential copyright issue, so most of the content cannot be read. I am not really clear about what information the page had before or what will be left in the article after it is done with the potential copyright issue. I am afraid that the new information I am going to add would be similar to what they already had.

Bibliography

•Gaugh, Harry F. Willem de Kooning. New York : Abbeville Press, c1983.

This book has a detailed analysis of de Kooning’s women series. This well- known series, begun in 1950 and culminating in Woman VI (1953). Gaugh pointed out the motif of the Woman serious that de Kooning once remarked to all the critical audiences, “what is the problem? This is all about freedom.” Gaugh mentioned that the central issue in de Kooning’s art is his creative use of ambiguity. This is how de Kooning applied the term freedom. The audiences cannot distinguish the background of Woman VI, and the other paintings in Woman series. De Kooning has squashed the Women VI against the picture plane. He also pointed that de Kooning’s Woman series have been perceived by some as symbols of male chauvinism.

•Prather, Marla. Willem de Kooning: paintings. Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994.

The book focuses on de Kooning's most noteworthy and original painted achievements: portraits from the early 1940s; including key selections from the notorious Woman series of 1945 to 1954. Prather pointed that in Woman VI, de Kooning achieved a complete equation of woman and landscape. “The landscape is in the Woman and there is Woman in the landscape.” This is a short step help me understanding this painting and the style of American Abstraction.

•Waldman, Diane. Willem de Kooning. New York : Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1988

This book provides a historical context about the female figure in the periods when de Kooning was depicted. Diane explains the reasons why de Kooning’s women still seem “vociferous, ferocious, funny, and like a vulnerable sex symbol” after decades. This is because women were perceived this way in 1950s. The women in de Kooning’s painting are true 1950s women, the products of male desire, and emblems of a sexual fantasy that captivated an era just as today’s younger stars symbolized the childlike sexual fantasy of the generation of the 1980s. Upon learning the situation of women during that time, the figure can be understand more easily.

•Serge Guilbaut. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art, University of Chicago Press, 1983. This is a "revisionist" text that outlines how artists gradually moved from radical, leftist positions to entrenched right-leaning ones during the Cold War. Guilbaut was, like Shapiro and Shapiro, a rigorous researcher committed to uncovering the nitty-gritty social history of Ab Ex. Consequently there's very little about art itself in this book. It would be mostly useful for the social / political context. Aolivex (talk) 16:33, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

•Lake, Susan F. Willem de Kooning : the artist’s materials. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2010.

•Rosenberg, Harold. Willem de Kooning. New York, Abrams 1974

This book provides a detailed background on Willem de Kooning. No matter in which periods, de Kooning believes that the artist must begin with art as he dins it; in creating he is free, but he creates within a given context. De Kooning participated in the Neo-Plasticist tendency of American abstract painting. The examples would be the picture space is symmetrically apportioned and geometrical shaped are places in balance. However, he settled his account with modernist aesthetics and with the futurism, Neo- Plasticism, and Constructivism. He also stresses that metaphorical abstraction makes it possible for the painter to act freely on the canvas while discovering.

Outline

For the Willem De Kooning article, I would like to add more information on his Biography section and Works section. Now we only have his early life, so I am interested in adding more information about his middle age period. Moreover, I want to edit his works section, because de Kooning has contributed lots of art works from paintings to sculpture. The woman series is my main focus.

For Woman VI, I have listed several aspects that I would like to focus on, including the history during 1950s, the esthetics elements, the Abstract Expressionism style, the technique, the audience and the gender issue.

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Peer Review

Hello! I am one of your class mates and I chose to review your work for peer feedback. I am impressed with your contributions because they really seem to be essential and very important to the topic. The only suggestion I could think of would be to include a Wikipedia link when you mention abstract expressionism and maybe also when you mention Villa Boscoreale in Women VI. Another minor minor alteration would be maybe different wording than "in Roman" because that doesn't seem grammatically correct to me, but I am no sure so apologies if I am mistaken. Also apologies if I am not going about leaving feedback correctly using talk pages! Great contributions! -Gina — Preceding unsigned comment added by GinaMessick (talk • contribs) 21:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)