#willem-de-kooning

#willem-de-kooning

Although the Dutchman would come to upend the traditions of painting, de Kooning was, in many ways, an artist with one foot in the old world. He admired the likes of Ingres and Rubens and had been schooled at the Rotterdam Academy in the early years of the 20th century. There, he'd been drilled in draftsmanship and had spent years copying from casts and antiquities just like the Old Masters before him.