A leading artist among the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning never believed that abstraction and representation were mutually exclusive. As he stated: “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas…
Part of the small series as there is a women’s version too! http://kolekcja.galeriabielska.pl/pl/obiekt/284/rower-meski-i
Oil on canvas. Spotted in Vienna’s Albertina (Russians avant-garde paintings exhibition). Originally The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg. More info here: http://rusmuseumvrm.ru/data/collections/painting/19_20/zhb_1600/index.php?lang=ru
