{"id":219,"date":"2021-12-16T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/?p=219"},"modified":"2021-12-16T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:28:10","slug":"blog-post-5-elaine-de-kooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/2021\/12\/16\/blog-post-5-elaine-de-kooning\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 5 – Elaine De Kooning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my final blog post, I researched\u2026drum roll please\u2026you guessed it! A female artist. In a similar fashion to Sonia Delauney, I stumbled across the artist I researched this week through her husband, much to my own displeasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elaine de Kooning was a skilled and proficient American painter and wife of Willem de Kooning. She was skilled across the board, from figurative art, abstract art, writing, art criticism, and proto-feminist. She had entrepreneurial skills from a young age, selling portraits of her classmates at the age of 8 and a special fearlessness, garnering her a reputation as a daredevil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a young Elaine De Kooning painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Elaine De Kooning specialized in portraits. This figurative approach was unusual at the time of Abstract Expressionism but is a breath of fresh air with the power of her strokes and use of color. She loved to paint portraits of her friends and was even commissioned for a portrait by John F. Kennedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tina Singer, 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John F. Kennedy #10, 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Influenced by cave paintings, her paintings possess a raw quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Home, 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bull, 1983<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Willem de Kooning used to be her old teacher, who she married after being his student. Their relationship was hard due to Willem\u2019s own psychological issues facing abuse and the hyper-sexualization of his mother from a young age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, she also sacrificed her career for her husband. She believed he was a genius and gave up everything to help convince the world of it. For the promotion of art, she even went so far as to sleep with people who could help Willem be successful. I admire that she did this and believed in him so, but it\u2019s sad that she had to put her paintbrush down to achieve this. When has there ever been a female artist whose husband gave up his craft for her? I\u2019m afraid this is only ever expected of women, leading me to believe there must have been countless other female artists who were lost to time, willfully so as to support the men in their life. I hope one day that women will be recognized, not only for their skill and talent, but their sacrifices made for art history. The lost mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives of our heroes deserve a place beside them in the canon of art history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/elaine-de-kooning\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/why-elaine-de-kooning-sacrificed-her-own-amazing-career-her-more-famous-husbands-180955182\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my final blog post, I researched\u2026drum roll please\u2026you guessed it! A female artist. In a similar fashion to Sonia Delauney, I stumbled across the artist I researched this week through her husband, much to my own displeasure. Elaine de Kooning was a skilled and proficient American painter and wife of Willem de Kooning. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/sophiaspanosmcgill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}