Abstract

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Greenberg, Clement | April 24, 1948 issue

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William De Kooning is an outright "abstract" painter, and there does not seem to be an identifiable image in any of the ten pictures in his show-all of which, incidentally, were done within the last year. A draftsman of the highest order, in using black, gray, tan, and white preponderantly he manages to exploit to the maximum his lesser gift as a colorist: De Kooning's insistence on a smooth, thin surface is a concomitant of his desire for purity, for an art that makes demands only on the optical imagination.

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DE Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997; PAINTERS; ARTS; ARTISTS; PICTURES; DRAWING; IMAGES, Photographic
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