Better Than de Kooning
“Better than de Kooning”, this title quoted for a group exhibition sounds like a terrible genre joke, because “nobody can paint better than de Kooning”, so it is an ideal title for a group show exhibition. Peter Saul paints during the mid‑1970s a series of pictures of women that parodies the “Woman"-pictures (1950–1953) of Willem de Kooning. He meticulously imitates the brush strokes and the impasto in a stylistic mix of Pointillism and Graffiti Art, turns up the colour regulator, and allows the abstract‑expressionist painting and the women themselves to blend in a “Daliesque” manner, like soft ice cream (see the text “Un Autre Monde” by Marcus Weber and “Ice Creams, Atom Bomb, I‑Screens, Data Bomb” by Esther Leslie in this book). In 2008, Saul paints another version of this cartoon‑like, neon avatar and calls his painting “Better than de Kooning”… a relief of US reality.
Details
Graphic art, Caricature, Painting, 2010s, Graffiti, Abstract expressionism
Weber Marcus (Article author), Leslie Esther (Article author), Baur Andreas (Article author), McCarthy Paul (Article author), Saul Peter (Article author)
Euler Jana, Krieg Dieter, Lozano Lee, Lassnig Maria, Saul Peter, Majerus Michel, Shaw Jim, Berresheim Tim, Williams Sue, Rafman Jon, Reski Gunter, Plavčak Katrin, Sillman Amy, Schaufler Matthias
Cologne
2015
152 pages
9783864421372
Open stacks
Yes
No
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