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THERE is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia," Willem de Kooning once noted, with an artist's lordly disregard for details of engineering. "Duchamp is on it. Cézanne is on it." An imposing retrospective of his work, opening at the Museum of Modern Art this week, demonstrates that De Kooning, still hale and heartily turning out landscapes at 64, has already established his place along that main line...
...artists feel compelled to satirize the status quo. In this sense, the stage seems curiously akin to 1953. That was the year when Robert Rauschenberg set the stage for pop with his own contribution to the "art for art's sake" genre: erasing an Abstract Expressionist drawing by Willem de Kooning...
...response to these pressures, the World Council is already changing its style and philosophy, largely as a result of Blake's prodding during his two years as its chief officer. He is a far more hard-driving administrator than his predecessor, Dutch Theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft. In Geneva, Blake, 62, presides over the council's starkly modern, three-story ecumenical center with all the dispatch of a top business executive. His brisk ways may occasionally irritate some Europeans (who make up a majority of the center's 336-man staff), but he also displays...
...17th century Dutch, his name means "the king," and no one in The Netherlands was about to let Painter Willem de Kooning forget it. Back in his homeland for the first time since he sailed to the U.S. as a deckhand in 1926, the 64-year-old abstract expressionist confessed, "I was afraid to come back, but I was wrong." Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum was aglow with 90 De Kooning oils, and idolizing crowds trailed him everywhere. The only problem was that he had forgotten his mother tongue. After U.S. Ambassador William Tyler addressed the opening-night crowd...
...fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until 1962, though privately he enjoyed drawing the figure. "Then," he says, "pop popped...