Excelent video on abstract composition. I knew what it was, but I've never heard of the term brightness weight illusion till now. I'd enjoy hearing more on this more on this. For those interested in DeKooning's working process and techniques, get the book W.D. The Artist's Matrerials. Well worth it.

Your spot on. I’m glad to have found your video. Asymmetrical balance is part of what makes my abstracts readable

Asymmetrical balance is how perspective is, and De Kooning is a master at that and that's why he can do this.

Very good explanation. To me, you helped explain great composition vs. not so great composition. I've been painting and selling work for many years. I started teaching adult beginning and intermediate students about a dozen years ago. In explaining composition, your explanation of asymmetrical balance is going to help me explain, to a more thorough level, composition to my students. Thank you.

Really enjoyed it. Opened up new way of seeing. I’m an artist and appreciate your take on asymmetrical balance.

My favorite painter and a big part of why I like his work. I like your photographs.

AWESOME! Thanks for showing.

Great insight into De Kooning’s process … learnt lots so thanks 🙏🏻❤️🇦🇺

I've been drawn to abstract painting my whole life. As much as I admire the Dutch Golden Age as a photographer (they were masters of lighting) nothing speaks to me emotionally like the early modern art movement. Thank you for this video.

I’ll be watching your future videos. Thanks

Love de Kooning…flew to the NYMet to see a retrospective….all the way from the west coast! Was not disappointed in the show!

I learned something new, thank you :)

A big Thank You to you Paul for this video. Finally, I am able to understand this kind of art better. More videos like this will be such a treat.

thank you for your explanation on this study case. It put in to confusion in no time

do not forget to call out that he leaves no boundaries. it does not stop where there is no canvas. I think one of the greatest mistakes some art shows to have is to place the object in the middle of the work. and leave it at that. this is the most natural cost of beauty. One should envision how the work goes on (without missing it).

A very useful video sir. Please keep making more such videos

Really enjoy this video.

Wonderful video. I think the size and direction of the brushstrokes are part of achieving the balance. I wonder if the painting still feels balanced when rotated or flipped.

Fantastic video

Great photos! I noticed the compositional sense immediately! I could look at an entire photo book of your work and would be proud to have it on display in my home!

Super - thank you

Whillgen is the great. .si es hermoso y yo adoré su pintura ...fue un icono .....y un compulsivo actor de sus telas ...no estuve cerca de ellas ..pero es cool al final

Thanks for creating and sharing quality content, I'd just suggest please make the paintings bigger next time if possible,even on TV screen I wish I could look at a bigger picture. What's the real size of it, please? (ignore please if you put it in thevideo description, forgot to look in itbefore commenting). Like!

But I would have to share, in regards to de Kooning that my work shared something in his art as an influence probably from my years in high school. In fact some techniques he employed I would have discovered sooner had I actually studied his work in greater depth. The retrospective did reveal technique that I spent years developing because I had not formally studied his career. He and I had both arrived at the same conclusion many years apart in our travel along the less traveled paths of painting.

Muy interesante tu explicacion , soy artista y por supuesto uno conoce estas reglas de composicion y simetria oero siemore es bueno escuchar unacexplicacip fresca te recomiendo ver la obra de un fotografo chileno ,que trabajaba asi tambien. Sergio larrain ! Muchas gracias !

I view the top/centre dark shape as the strongest elements in this work. Perhaps subconsciously, because it's DeKooning, It appears to be the focal point - a female bodice and resting arm, with all other shapes leading to this unusual spot. Am I over-reaching?

Most people are not educated about Art and others think they are or think they know. That's why quite a few high-end abstract Artworks look like just a bunch of paint splattered on a canvas to some and very well may be. An Artist's Art is a communication of an idea, concept, mood, feeling Etc... to an audience whether it be one person or group's of people. If the Artist's "Art" does not convey the artist's communication very well or is misinterpreted or not understood Etc... to that degree, it fails to be Good "ART" and thus communicates poorly, and if it fails to communicate at all it fails to be "ART" at all but to a few who I deem under the "The Emperor has no Close Effect." This is one of the fundamental problems and controversies about Modern and Contemporary art such as Abstract, Expressionism, Impressionism Etc...

I think I understood your statements reasonably well. What in your opinion is the meaning of "art"? To do/create something difficult to do or perhaps something no one else has done? Just those, not those, or more? What?? To me art is a creation that touches me, creates feelings (or thoughts) in me, or provokes me, all can be in a good or bad way. In that sense, this piece did not do it for me, though many other de Kooning pieces do, some very much so. It obviously provoked and triggered a sense of surprise, admiration, and thought (about balance, math., etc.) in you. So, in my definition of art it is good art to you, while not much to me! Please note that my point of view (and the definition of art) is only from and for the receiving side/person, not that of the creating artist. I am not even remotely attempting to guess why he painted this piece, whether he thought about it long/at all, or just felt a certain emotion he had to express, was happy, sad, thinking about balance/math/technique, etc. I am interested to hear your definition of art for the observer (listener, viewer, etc.). And, of course, if you have more of a guess why he painted this particular piece it would be nice to hear that too! That said, I do not think we should generally spend any time trying to understand what the artist was trying to say. He said what he was trying to say (if anything). If we do not get it he did not achieve his goal. Maybe that is our loss! Question: If you do not understand this long and intentionally rambling comment about your video, is it your fault that perhaps you did not think enough etc., or my failure and fault (or maybe even that of my English as second language), or the very fact that it is/was long (again intentionally long to make a point), had typos, etc.? Should you even think about what I must/could have wanted to say? Fact is that I had a medium, an idea, and in this case a purpose (expressing my specific thoughts for you and others to appreciate) but did not succeed doing so! So what? That is that! As for your photographs, to me they are more, much more, artistic than this painting and indeed the best part of your video, which btw is very "unbalanced". Most of your photos meet my definition of "art". I should not, and do not (and did not) think what was he (you) thinking when he took that pictures, or what was he trying to say, what feeling was supposed to be conveyed to me, etc. They all happened. It does not even matter if I got out of those pictures the same that was intended by you! If you want specifics of why I liked them or what I got/appreciated --regardless of what you said about them in your video: I appreciated the compositions and b&w nature and lighting. Will go look at the again now. Thank you for responding!!

Hans Hoffmann offers the idea of color and what he called architonics. A dynamism of the deep relationships that only happen when colors ar next to each other as in this work. Thanks for sharing it!

Thank you

Amazing

Like him,the red is not the darkest area, he also implies image,this was the disagreement with Pollack who by the way also returned to image.

Personally I think art as a whole.. Is in ones ability to make the unobvious beautiful and make us look at the obvious, through a different lense. We can get analytical ad nauseam or use mathematics of values and balance all we like.. but in the end... does "it" command our attention? If yes.. Its art if no, then no.

There is a big difference between a painting looking like a mess and a painting that actually is a mess. Just try painting like De Koonig - it is a lot harder than you think.

I’m an artist, you explain it well for idiots, as I once was

Bs , what choice was there ? All red or all white ? The best abstraction has no conscious input , that , makes it hard ,or easy ?

Well, it is of course, just as you say. Brovo!

The thinking that goes into a painting like this deKooning isn’t very different from the thinking that Andrew Wyeth put into his paintings. There are massive differences but each painter would recognize the visual logic in the other’s painting.

El pintaba perfomances

No puedo copiarlo ...es tan auténtico

Hip hop is like abstract painting

Paintings should be understood and have emotional values with out any explanation, I am afraid your explanation make the case more complicated for the viewers.

The king is in the altogether the altogether the altogether the altogether as naked as the day that he was born😂

images of kensington, vancouver and tenderloin lol

Conjecture.... Conjecture.... Conjecture....

I love art but learned with Warhol that you have to be in the club to be successful. Art and charities are big in the laundering business. People now believe me because of the corruption with United way, the red cross and Hunter's art.

what?

Ok, you are able to find a design element(s) or two, but is it attractive, tell a story, or provide enjoyment. On all three points, this painting losses. Yes it is my opinion, but so is this video a person's opinion. I worked in factories when I was younger and this looks like industrial waste-to me. How is the orange area on the left is dark, it appears to be a midtone to me?

7 minutes ?

its not a painting,its a joke...asimetrical balance))) its about puting some oil on canvas and looking smart...hmm absolute spontaniety..for me its absolute crap..but to explain shortly its mistification...to insinuate that there is more than you see ..and the most important humas visual is made to look for a form,a face or something else even tghough there isnt..thats the trick

Still doesn't actually mean anything

I prefer Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning.

Form and structure...yet no content. A work of art must be about something. And not just an emotion.

Art should not have to be explained

Reaching for straws

I don’t think De Kooning spent much time on this painting. Overthought crap.

Nah, overrated hack.. The photographs however are well composed and finely executed.

Sometimes the difference between art and junk is like the difference between imagination and the emperor's new invisible clothes.