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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of...

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In art one idea is as good as another.

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Willem de Kooning

Artist

Born: 1904-04-24

Died: 1997-03-19

Willem de Kooning (24 April 1904 – 19 March 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, who settled in the United States. Along with Jackson Pollock, and others, he was an exponent of Abstract expressionism. Initially, he was strongly influenced by Picasso, Cubism, and Chaim Soutine. He was married with Elaine de Kooning and closely befriended with Arshile Gorky; later with Franz Kline.More