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Willem de Kooning: Methods and Materials

By Susan Lake

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
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About this lesson

A conservator's account of how de Kooning physically made three paintings: charcoal scribbles over layered oil, house paint and enamel bulked with sand and plaster applied with knives and scrapers, and later paint whipped with safflower oil for fast wet-into-wet brushwork.