Willem de Kooning A Retrospective at MoMA Part II

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12 жыл бұрын

James Kalm has on occasions presented what he feels are "historical" exhibitions. But nothing could fit that category more precisely than "Willem de Kooming: a Retrospective at MoMA". Billed as the most complete survey of this heroic artist's career ever presented, this exhibition is a once in a lifetime chance to see its full breadth. Part two features "the Break Through Years" 1948 -1950, and a viewing of the groundbreaking "Woman" series from the early 1950s including "Woman III " which David Geffen sold to Steven A. Cohen for $135 million in November, 2006.

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@jubilanti15 11 жыл бұрын

De Kooning is great and his being accompanied by you - Mr James Kalm - makes the visit 20 times (at least) ! more pleasurable. I'm going to be looking up all your videos. A thousand thanks.

@marcuswedman 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing painter. Thanks

@Whatever3114 12 жыл бұрын

I was lucky to have been in New York exposing in Brooklyn - took a good look at the retrospective and it is simply incredible... Everything is there, and the sculptures are damned good too! As i'm an artist this show was a total must see. A one off miracle not to be lost. It was ... The best show i've ever seen

@PaintnFilm22 9 жыл бұрын

This was a wonderful show. I felt so lucky that it was able to happen as it did. Great collection.

@StephenS-2024 Жыл бұрын

Man,....I'd miss out on so much if not for James. Thanks a million.

@zenoist2 8 жыл бұрын

He paints like I do except he's a thousand times better. I can understand his art totally. Thx for posting this.

@lisengel2498 5 жыл бұрын

Abstract art can be quite wonderfull in the way they can mix the visuel with all the other ways of experiencing and expressing. Its a total presence of energy and a play with painting that is intense and multidimensionel and filled with the joy of freedom of expression

@johnnymartinARTIST 9 жыл бұрын

JK you have touched many lives with this...so...MANY thanks!

@MrIrons-og3rg 8 жыл бұрын

I love the ending ( conversation). Thanks, James.

@lisengel2498 7 жыл бұрын

I think that it is so great because the painting all feel so strong and honest - this is a way of communicating about experience that seem radically true - its all about felt energy

@Eeeeeeegggggggs 7 жыл бұрын

Some of the best views of de Kooning's colour I have seen online. Thank you James.

@jameskalm 7 жыл бұрын

As a painter myself, it's always been my intent to try and show the most sensual side of painting. To bring viewers close-ups of the surface and try to capture the delectable qualities of color and facture. Sometimes I'm lucky and sometimes...

@Eeeeeeegggggggs 7 жыл бұрын

jameskalm you really do it well James. Your camera traverses the territory of the paint gorgeously. I'm really looking forward to seeing the de Kooning offerings at the Royal Academy Abstract Expressionist exhibition very soon. Your films have inspired me to look at the work up close more than I normally would. I think a couple of the Woman paintings are there.

@theschwantz 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very, very mush for the DeKooning retrospective film as well as ALL of your videos. I miss living in NYC and going to the galleries and Museums. You fill a deep void with your work. We appreciate it more than you know here in Oregon.

@eyeshowyou 6 жыл бұрын

Just so beautiful

@vangoventures6513 9 жыл бұрын

Fantastic work James, thank you for this! Loren, I love your artwork.

@MrChubbington1 12 жыл бұрын

Gotham News ( in my opinion ) is the painting that has absolutely everything in it.... Thanks James. Great show , I just wish I had seen again. Only once isn't enough !

@d1artbob 12 жыл бұрын

Art History. A painting at this or that museum. I thought I knew DeKooning, and was pretty damn impressed. Then, I saw your videos, and was taken aback. Thank you so much.

@SilhouetteJudas 2 жыл бұрын

6:08 I’m so glad you mentioned that long strip of enamel paint, a lot of people don’t notice that I feel like

@willsi 12 жыл бұрын

The piece you spoke of being in Chicago for 50 years was there several years ago when I saw it. It was stoved away in a tiny hallway that I didn't even realize was there that lead to a big section of the Art Institute. It was along side a Pollack and an Ellsworth Kelly, other contemporaries also. Great video as always, James.

@Billart 12 жыл бұрын

Your Part II de Kooning at MoMA is also awesome - GREAT! His Abstracts & Women Series one after the other really snap into creative life over & over by your sweeping through his explosive paint marking. Good comments. Cute coda at the end about Ruth Kligman with Valery Oisteanu & Robert Morgan. I'd like to see any conceptual art with the expressive vitality & color reflected here. Surely his painting resounds in ways most other art today can't begin to touch. Your film will help.

@Badahwood 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks James!

@mikedunkle6709 7 жыл бұрын

someone should make a film about this brilliant man and artist...

@Pausini2 4 жыл бұрын

It really deserves that!

@garywilloughby6893 3 жыл бұрын

I love his 1950's work

@claureic 12 жыл бұрын

Excavation was bought in the early sixties by Chicago collector Muriel Kallis Newman. It is the only painting she donated to the AIC. The rest of her incredible collection (Pollock, Rothko, Newman...) was donated two years ago to the Met, of all museums...What is really striking is that even in those apparently abstract works, there is always the trace of a figure; thanks for pointing this out James.

@jameskalmroughcut 12 жыл бұрын

@KeithHarperSF They used to, but have in recent years realized that I'm providing a service to people who wouldn't be able to experience the exhibitions without the James Kalm Report. Mind you, these videos are recorded during press previews.

@jameskalm 12 жыл бұрын

@Badahwood They are talking about Ruth Kligman, the lady who survived the crash that killed Jackson Pollock, who also became de Kooning's lover as well.

@PicassoStar1 12 жыл бұрын

These two videos of de Kooning are among my favorites of all your videos ever posted (and I have watched them ALL - yeah, I know I need to get a life) but these two videos made me want to get up out of my chair and run into my studio and start painting...Is there a Part III? I noticed other de Kooning paintings in the background..thanks for posting this...you do every art lover a great favor - Ron

@frodenorge 12 жыл бұрын

Brilliant to use the the jazz music from the street!

@lukabunic 9 жыл бұрын

tnx for this

@lakshmanankomathmanalath 8 жыл бұрын

thank you

@SlavaKomisaroff 10 жыл бұрын

Great!

@Mr2013skywalker 10 жыл бұрын

AMAZING

@DreKC 10 жыл бұрын

You can see Arshile Gorky's impact on De Kooning in some of his landscapes such as "Excavation"

@BigDaddyJames92 10 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@JohnBrown-be6re 4 жыл бұрын

is Excavation one of the best paintings ever made?...the close ups in the film show the lightness of touch and feel for drawing that's easy to miss in book repros.....its also the quality that many copyists skipped ...its a painting that keeps shifting in view.

@guzzopinc1646 3 жыл бұрын

Not to my taste. I like De Kooning a lot but I don't think he is in the top 20 of my favorite 20th Century painters... He has a lot of technical virtuousity but can't really compose and that's much more important than all the effects De Kooning is so focused on. In the end he appeals to a very romantic idea of what painting should be.

@SlavaKomisaroff 12 жыл бұрын

Great Willem de Kooning!This is American Style!

@chezceleste 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you, thank you Kate...sensory overload...I need to lie down.

@lisengel2498 5 жыл бұрын

Really fun to be able to watch the show even if I could not be there in Real time. The painting are very interesting to watch but I still wish that you would take the time to show the whole painting comepletely still just a short moment before dancing in and alu and around for interesting details -

@user-km5yr7jo3d 9 жыл бұрын

抽象表現主義大師，我最喜愛他狂野不羇的筆觸和大膽色調的風格，極品中的極品，太帥了!

@marioriospinot 9 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@sabrinanascimento1267 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I am learning and sometimes I copy Art to learn. I like Picasso.

@johnnytony593 4 жыл бұрын

De Kooning was a great admirer of Picasso. He said he loved the art styles that came out of cubism. Painted with distortion and violence like him.

@Badahwood 12 жыл бұрын

Who are they talking about? Can't hear. Dammit. Doesn't matter. Amazing. This has made my day. Hmm is there a part 3?

@RollingOrmond 12 жыл бұрын

The museum guards must have been picking their noses. Good job!

@PicassoStar1 12 жыл бұрын

@jameskalm Yes, and what a beautiful woman Ruth Kligman was in her hey day...died last year at age 80

@lisengel2498 7 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful, very interesting - but I admit I would have preferred that the camera did not dance so much around, but staged calm in front of each piece -

@Dirtzoo 11 жыл бұрын

Pollock emulated De Kooning. and copied his style from the early days.. then Pollock found his own voice in the drip paintings.. And De Kooning when with the women strategy. those New York School boys were very close. drank together. passed around girlfriends etc.

@mitziefeltch5528 5 жыл бұрын

Camera moves too fast. Need to see the whole piece first, keep camera still, then zoom in for details. You don’t give this viewer enough time to see the work & let me establish a dialogue w/the piece.

@johnnytony593 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, stillness is a must. I mute the sound and slow the playback speed, and I'm in NY at my pace. It's a magical tour, without the music.

@ryanh206 12 жыл бұрын

I'm still at a loss as to why de Kooning is seen as a "great draftsman"? Out of all the great painters from history, de Kooning still eludes me. I don't get what the big deal is? His work from the 40s I can appreciate, but the later stuff looks like garbage to me.