Am so in love with Willem De Koonings wonderful paintings and drawings-have been from the very beginning. Thank you so much once again James Kalm for your terrific video.
@@jameskalm Hi James not Kate but Lucy here. THANKS so much for all your excellent videos. Stay safe and healthy please. Love to you and to all New Yorkers from Vancouver BC Canada. You've inspired me to get off my butt and start whipping up masterpieces in my studio which is fortunately here at home.
@@lucygodwinart5961 Thanks for your concern and attentions Lucy. Nice to hear your getting inspired, and I always end the videos with "thank you Kate" because if it wasn't for her, these videos would never happen...
Thank you so much for this, de Kooning is one of my all times favs and your video did his paintings a great service...he was a true painter, artist, and icon.We need a film about his life one of these days............
Great show at the MoMa, really impressive to see in a room close to 500 million or so and be allowed to be close looking at them... I call this the sumumn of civilization. Great moment it was a vital exposition for any artist.
Thank you Kate...De Kooning always leaves me breathless and emotional...everything he does resonates with my soul...must remember to come back and watch this regularly...Door to the River is one of my favourite paintings ever.
There IS a part III. AND a part IV. I'm in heaven. Thank you so so much. Stuck in LA listening to the ads for this on NPR - jealous! Thanks for taking me, James. Better now.
Absolutely wonderful, so grateful to you James that you make the efforts to show us this work up close and personal. I never realised de koonings work was just SO beautiful up close. And the fullness and completeness of each work. Every work shown looked 'finished' to to my eye.
Gorgeous paintings very physical and sensuel - they are abstract and imaginative at the same time and you can feel them in every fiber as songs of life
I saw my first de Koonings in 1972 in a college art history class. I said to myself, I HAVE TO DO THAT! So that really helped me decide to pick my BFA in studio art majoring in painting. My father wasn't thrilled but he said it didn't matter what the degree was in. He thought college "polished" people. I'm not too sure just how polished I ever got. He and my mother both had THREE collect degrees. Mom was an English professor, PhD, of course. I think she was a bit more polished than I got! haha But I still love de Kooning to this day.
Your 3 parts on de Kooning at MoMA have each hit the jackpot. This is like an informed grad course in Ab Ex painting -- invaluable. Cool comment about the newsprint transferring to the paint beneath by solvents on top as opposed to the actual newsprint collage idea underneath suggested by Valery Oisteanu, Surrealist & Dada historian.
De Kooning is like a god to me, i can't understand how he's able to work out his art so much and it at the same time looking so fresh as if it was put on the canvas in an instant
I don't think I could even afford to paint like this... with the oil paint that goes into each picture. How many large tubes do you think he used for a medium sized painting? Upwards of 20 tubes?
JK really enjoyed this series...but the saxophone playing in the background? annoying after the second vid, just gets in the way, but gracias for the continual work you do..
hahahahah i love agnes too, i think pure abstraction is extremely difficult to create well, so i respect it and from that respect comes enjoyment. The reason i think its hard is because there is no reference and no rules, it is impossible to actually know if an abstract painting is right or wrong since there is nothing else in reality to compare it too. Painting abstractions, for me is mucch more mentally torturous than painting from life (although i love both particularly alice neel) since you cant see where you went wrong.
@@james-rg5uk All painting is an abstraction..especially "realist' painting so at the end of the day... there is only Painting left anyaway. Great videos .
I tried the news paper thing on oil. Well.....it ws a disaster. Why? Patience . You have to let the paint literaly dry then peel the news paper off a week later, minimum. De Kooning ......Did he ever do a dud? I doubt it.
It’s probably cause newspaper printing technology has improved over the decades, but you can do something similar with xerox transfer and it basically creates the same effect
That's valid. I love De Kooning but I won't for a second deny that some of his works are downright ugly. I now accept many of these more challenging pieces with mild appreciation and interest knowing that they were all part of an arc of creative output that was restlessly experimental. It wasn't really till I saw his work from the 70s that I was able to see how his willingness to push the envelope produced some truly incredible stuff, and that makes me admire him deeply. But make no mistake, when the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket yells "You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!" I always imagined he was thinking of Woman I (1952) or something by Picasso!
Am so in love with Willem De Koonings wonderful paintings and drawings-have been from the very beginning. Thank you so much once again James Kalm for your terrific video.
I ADORE your videos and commentaries. I saw this exhibition at MoMA and cried with joy. THANKS so much for posting this wonderful video.
And thanks Kate...
@@jameskalm Hi James not Kate but Lucy here. THANKS so much for all your excellent videos. Stay safe and healthy please. Love to you and to all New Yorkers from Vancouver BC Canada. You've inspired me to get off my butt and start whipping up masterpieces in my studio which is fortunately here at home.
@@lucygodwinart5961 Thanks for your concern and attentions Lucy. Nice to hear your getting inspired, and I always end the videos with "thank you Kate" because if it wasn't for her, these videos would never happen...
Thank you so much for this, de Kooning is one of my all times favs and your video did his paintings a great service...he was a true painter, artist, and icon.We need a film about his life one of these days............
Great show at the MoMa, really impressive to see in a room close to 500 million or so and be allowed to be close looking at them... I call this the sumumn of civilization. Great moment it was a vital exposition for any artist.
Thank you Kate...De Kooning always leaves me breathless and emotional...everything he does resonates with my soul...must remember to come back and watch this regularly...Door to the River is one of my favourite paintings ever.
There IS a part III. AND a part IV. I'm in heaven. Thank you so so much. Stuck in LA listening to the ads for this on NPR - jealous! Thanks for taking me, James. Better now.
Thank you so much james kalm these are great!
Such strong attraction/repulsion of colors and forms. Simply magnificent!
Wonderfull paintings - i love to watch them and wish I had each painting in a still Photo just to meditation on each of them
Brilliant show. Brilliant footage. Takes my breath away!
Thank you for these posts. It's like being at the exhibit!
this is really mind blowing..thank you willem and thank you james kalm
Absolutely wonderful, so grateful to you James that you make the efforts to show us this work up close and personal. I never realised de koonings work was just SO beautiful up close. And the fullness and completeness of each work. Every work shown looked 'finished' to to my eye.
Some of these paintings seem more calm and very poetic in the fluid, painterly gestures caressing, showing and Dissolving light, colour and textures
Gorgeous paintings very physical and sensuel - they are abstract and imaginative at the same time and you can feel them in every fiber as songs of life
I saw my first de Koonings in 1972 in a college art history class. I said to myself, I HAVE TO DO THAT! So that really helped me decide to pick my BFA in studio art majoring in painting. My father wasn't thrilled but he said it didn't matter what the degree was in. He thought college "polished" people. I'm not too sure just how polished I ever got. He and my mother both had THREE collect degrees. Mom was an English professor, PhD, of course. I think she was a bit more polished than I got! haha
But I still love de Kooning to this day.
Hey @Robert Terrell I'm glad you find the Report useful, thanks for your response...JK
Excellent, wish I could have gone.
Great stuff!
@2:43 James sets straight the passionate but misguided enthusiast. "If you look at the print, it's backwards"
Thank you Kate, thank you everybody.
Your 3 parts on de Kooning at MoMA have each hit the jackpot. This is like an informed grad course in Ab Ex painting -- invaluable. Cool comment about the newsprint transferring to the paint beneath by solvents on top as opposed to the actual newsprint collage idea underneath suggested by Valery Oisteanu, Surrealist & Dada historian.
I simply can't get on board with his work. Thankfully there is lots of art out there to enjoy.
amazing works
If there is more, please do part IV
Fab Artist de Kooning
De Kooning is like a god to me, i can't understand how he's able to work out his art so much and it at the same time looking so fresh as if it was put on the canvas in an instant
I don't think I could even afford to paint like this... with the oil paint that goes into each picture. How many large tubes do you think he used for a medium sized painting? Upwards of 20 tubes?
Was it De Kooning that signed his paintings backwards because he never thought they were finished?
Thank you for these wonderful videos!
They look so fresh!
Great videos. Thanks!
ps
did he soaked the newspaper with some liquid?
Yes, solvents. Maybe turp.
JK really enjoyed this series...but the saxophone playing in the background? annoying after the second vid, just gets in the way, but gracias for the continual work you do..
I can just think of the brush cleaning nightmares...
Why do you pan so fast with that camera? Keep camera still longer!
great
That bloody red in Gotham News...
smashing
I enjoy him only with image reference. I am not smart enough for pure abstraction, Agnes is as close as I get.
hahahahah i love agnes too, i think pure abstraction is extremely difficult to create well, so i respect it and from that respect comes enjoyment. The reason i think its hard is because there is no reference and no rules, it is impossible to actually know if an abstract painting is right or wrong since there is nothing else in reality to compare it too. Painting abstractions, for me is mucch more mentally torturous than painting from life (although i love both particularly alice neel) since you cant see where you went wrong.
@@james-rg5uk All painting is an abstraction..especially "realist' painting so at the end of the day... there is only Painting left anyaway. Great videos .
This part 3 seems the artist is murdering the canvas with his brush strokes
Too fast.. you get to drawings you say you like and then go a million miles an hour! yeah great Blurs!
I tried the news paper thing on oil. Well.....it ws a disaster. Why? Patience . You have to let the paint literaly dry then peel the news paper off a week later, minimum. De Kooning ......Did he ever do a dud? I doubt it.
they changed the way they make newspaper, i dont think it works well anymore :(
It’s probably cause newspaper printing technology has improved over the decades, but you can do something similar with xerox transfer and it basically creates the same effect
Every artist has had a dud. What's good about abstract art you just can paint over it when it's dry.
Gotta have that malicious intent, gotta have it!
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Frankly, "Abstract" is a.k.a "The Tender Trap"
Best Wishes,
Mia Pharoah
His paintings look like a lot of muck and slop to me. I can't stand his paintings.
That's valid. I love De Kooning but I won't for a second deny that some of his works are downright ugly. I now accept many of these more challenging pieces with mild appreciation and interest knowing that they were all part of an arc of creative output that was restlessly experimental. It wasn't really till I saw his work from the 70s that I was able to see how his willingness to push the envelope produced some truly incredible stuff, and that makes me admire him deeply. But make no mistake, when the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket yells "You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!" I always imagined he was thinking of Woman I (1952) or something by Picasso!
Videographer should find other work.