Willem de Kooning: Tracing the figure; museum of contemporary art. (Los Angeles).
Fifty years ago Willem de Kooning shocked the art world with his "Woman" paintings--not simply because the figures were so violently abstract but because his abstraction In object technology, determining the essential characteristics of an object. Abstraction is one of the basic principles of object-oriented design, which allows for creating user-defined data types, known as objects. See object-oriented programming and encapsulation.
1. had so much figuration fig·u·ra·tion
n.
1. The act of forming something into a particular shape.
2. A shape, form, or outline.
3. The act of representing with figures.
4. A figurative representation.
5. in it. Curators Paul Schimmel Schimmel is a German surname and may refer to: - Dr. Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003), German Islam scholar
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See also and Connie Butler have assembled nearly all the pastels from the artist's landmark 1953 show, along with seventy other works on paper that chart de Kooning's grappling with the figure from 1938 through 1955. In light of recent bombshells by Currin, Yuskavage, et al., the time may be ripe for yet another look at the postwar granddaddy of bodily transformation. Feb. 10--Apr. 28; SF MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. , June 15--Sept. 8; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Sept. 29--Jan. 5, 2003.
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