Willem de Kooning: Dynamic Art in Action

I love the kind of art that is startling. For that reason I am particularly interested in the works of the abstract expressionists. One of my favorite people in this category is the Dutch-born American painter, Willem de Kooning. It is unique in the genius of Willem de Kooning that he broke through the rigorous confines of cubism and ventured out into a vivid sphere of the profane and the terrific aura of irony that tends to grab us and turn us into members of his esthetic fan club. The slick delicious aspect of the art of Willem de Kooning is his approach to comprehensive interpretations of the brisk mind-set that is indicative of contemporary anxiety with all of its odd manifestations. His series of paintings of women produced a lot of conversation because of the rather bizarre, violent imagery that he brought to his works. Much like the somewhat sardonic tone of the literary works of Henry Miller, the unusual excitement that is profoundly explosive in Willem de Kooning's works is truly fascinating for its "action painting" clever esthetic interpretation. Henry Miller was so sophisticated in his cleverness. And William de Kooning, also, is a man who has a strong intellectual dynamic that has a tremendous amount of strong appeal in our turbulent American world of the 21st Century.