Abstract

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Danto, Arthur C. | December 5, 1994 issue

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The extremely moving retrospective exhibition devoted to the paintings of Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was organized to mark and celebrate the artist's ninetieth birthday. The reflections are reinforced by the fact that the show coincides with an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the origins of Impressionism, considered as a movement. Each of the paintings exemplifies the essence of Abstract Expressionism, but always in the artist's own particular way. But the show inevitably memorializes the art of the New York School, which de Kooning's work epitomizes, and provokes a number of thoughts on the reciprocal relationships between individual artists and the large transformative movements actualized through their work.

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EXHIBITIONS; PAINTING; DE Kooning, Willem; ART museums; BIRTHDAYS; IMPRESSIONISM (Art); EXPRESSIONISM (Art)
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