Willem de Kooning: Abstract Landscapes, 1955–63 Woodcut quasi-pointillist dynamism

quasi-pointillist dynamism

avant-garde art

Invoking flowers as a symbol of peace

notably the Course of Empire series (Ruscha’s contribution to the 51st Biennale di Venezia in 2005) and the Psycho Spaghetti Western paintings

it might also be seen as a self-portrait

Willem de Kooning: Abstract Landscapes, 1955–63 Woodcut quasi-pointillist dynamismThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Willem de Kooning: Abstract Landscapes, 195563 at Gagosians former gallery on West 23rd Street in New York. The selection of large scale gestural abstractions by the leading Abstract Expressionist traces a stylistic trajectory that critic Thomas Hess characterized as a sequence from Abstract Urban Landscape and Abstract Parkway Landscape through Abstract Pastoral Landscape. The catalogue