Elaine de Kooning

Person · Open Library

Works

6

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1918-03-12

Active to

1989-02-01

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Quotes

• “A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
• “When I painted my seated men, I saw them as gyroscopes. Portraiture always fascinated me because I love the particular gesture of a particular expression or stance.. .Working on the figure, I wanted paint to sweep through as feelings sweep through..”
• “When I painted Frank O'Hara, [in 1962] Frank was standing there. First I painted the whole structure of his face; then I wiped out the face, and when the face was gone, it was more Frank than when the face was there.”