Willem de Kooning

- Willem de Kooning is a Dutch abstract expressionist artist.
- Born in the Netherlands.
- Painted in a style called abstract expressionism or action painting.
- the hallmark of de Kooning's style was an emphasis on complex figure ground ambiguity.
- "The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves." - Willem de Kooning.

I like the pattern element in his work and think they like the work of other practitioners that I've mentioned, resemble that of the specimens under the microscope. What I fins special about this work is the ambigious ability to form images with our mind within the images, I like the idea of not being forced into something visual I prefer to be just helped along.