https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks en-us 2021-05-10 20:56:04 UTC 2024-06-03 16:12:21 UTC hello@padlet.com monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511153602 Elaine de Kooning ]]> 2021-05-10 21:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511153602 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511158493 Elaine de Kooning  was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 and died in 1989. In 1962 she painted "John F. Kennedy", a good example of figurative expressionist]]> 2021-05-10 21:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511158493 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511167748 Her energetic figurative works provided an important perspective in the milieu of Abstract Expressionism.]]> 2021-05-10 21:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511167748 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511175312 She wanted to be an artist, so she quit college and enrolled at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. ]]> 2021-05-10 21:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511175312 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511181953 In 1938 a friend introduced her to Willem De Kooning, the Dutch painter who had arrived in New York. Apparently, it was love at first sight.]]> 2021-05-10 21:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511181953 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511190314 Elaine painted people for fun, including members of her family. ]]> 2021-05-10 21:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511190314 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511192578 She studied each person “to find the characteristic pose that would define them.”]]> 2021-05-10 21:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511192578 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511194955 She loved to teach and her students loved her. ]]> 2021-05-10 21:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511194955 monster123martu https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511197610 Her most important portrait commission was of President John F. Kennedy, for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library.
She spent several months on the commission. She was obsessed with it.]]> 2021-05-10 21:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/monster123martu/Bookmarks/wish/1511197610