| Better Than de Kooning: Kat. Villa Merkel Contributor(s): Baur, Andreas (Editor), Weber, Marcus (Editor), Leslie, Esther (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 3864421373 ISBN-13: 9783864421372 Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.3" W x 11" (1.54 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: STONED AGIN Better than de Kooning , this title quoted for a group exhibition sounds like a terrible genre joke, because nobody can paint better than de Kooning , so it is an ideal title for a group show exhibition. Peter Saul paints during the mid-1970s a series of pictures of women that parodies the Woman -pictures (1950-53) of Willem de Kooning. He meticulously imitates the brush strokes and the impasto in a stylistic mix of Pointillism and Graffiti Art, turns up the colour regulator, and allows the abstract-expressionist painting and the women themselves to blend in a Daliesque manner, like soft ice cream (see the text Un Autre Monde by Marcus Weber and Ice Creams, Atom Bomb, I-Screens, Data Bomb by Esther Leslie in this book). In 2008, Saul paints another version of this cartoon-like, neon avatar and calls his painting Better than de Kooning ...a relief of US reality. Artists: Exhibition: |
