Example sentences for: kooning

How can you use “kooning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At Yale, he learned to paint de Kooning rip-offs with such facility that he once told de Kooning that he'd painted more de Koonings than de Kooning had.

  • So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.

  • As de Kooning crossed the threshold, a transformation took place.

  • By the mid-1960s, like others of his generation, he'd left the gestural art of Pollock and de Kooning behind (though Pollock could have painted the swirling chest hair in Big Self-Portrait ) and begun using photographic images as the basis for his cooler, less openly expressive work.

  • Others think they document the de Kooning whom Close saw in the studio: an old man still young in his art.


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