Kooning
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Newman was charmed; others, partial to the “fancy tricks with the paint” of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, were not.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
“Erasing” De Kooning would get the incipient powerhouse out of the way, artistically speaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
Other artists that feature in her collection include American painter and sculptor Jasper Johns, Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning and American painter and printmaker Robert Rauschenberg.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
Close, best known for his monumental photorealist portraits, had not yet found his style and was painting in an expressionist mode heavily influenced by Willem de Kooning.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
She would be famous someday, Pearl was certain; someday her adored mother would be one of those artists, like de Kooning or Warhol or O’Keeffe, whose name everyone knew.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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