8 days ago · New York
Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Marking a century since the Dutch artist stowed away to New York, this vast retrospective gloriously showcases the abstract expressionist’s fierce boundary-pushing Willem de Kooning was the last great artist who really knew how to draw. More precisely, if less provocatively, he was the last truly transformative painter…
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Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch
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