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Kooning | Koons | Koon

Using Kooning

  • In the example corpus, kooning often appears in combinations such as: de kooning, kooning and, kooning is.

Context around Kooning

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

arshile 1× academy 1×

Sentence patterns with Kooning

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

friends de kooning and john 1× while de kooning is known 1× willem de kooning academy is 1× willem de kooning and franz 1× willem de kooning and oswaldo 1× willem de kooning arshile gorky 1× willem de kooning is an 1× willem de kooning were enormously 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

arshile gorky s 1× art movements in 1× part of the 1× she also felt 1× the auction will 1× this show presents 1×

Common sentence endings:

and clyfford still 1× and oswaldo guayasamin 1× and retail design 1× cubism and surrealism 1× linework of calligraphy 1× totally abstract paintings 1×

Words around Kooning

Just before it in the word index:

koonce 14 koonawarra 2 koon 12 koomson 6 koomen 2 koome 5

Just after it in the word index:

koons 28 koontz 28 koonwarra 2 koonz 2 koop 14 koopa 9

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 11 abacos 11 abboud 11 abbreviate 11 abdelkader 11 abdomens 11

Corpus analysis for Kooning

  • In this selection, "kooning" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, arshile and academy stand out and add context to how "kooning" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include friends de kooning and john and while de kooning is known. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "kooning" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with kooning

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

While de Kooning is known for his abstract work, he did play with the human figure within those abstractions. (19 words)

Art movements In the early 1950s Abstract expressionism and artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential. (19 words)

Part of the Willem de Kooning Academy is the Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and research in Fine Art, Media Design and Retail Design. (25 words)

Longer example sentences

This show presents the artist’s geometric abstraction as part and parcel with her progressive thinking and her relationships with colleagues in the American Abstract Artists Group such as Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. (39 words)

The auction will feature rare and new-to-the-market paintings and drawings from private collections in Europe and the Americas, to include large canvasses signed Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning and Oswaldo Guayasamin. (36 words)

She also felt a sense of competition looking at the gestural paintings of Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, in which she saw the linework of calligraphy. (30 words)

Example sentences (8)

She also felt a sense of competition looking at the gestural paintings of Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, in which she saw the linework of calligraphy.

This show presents the artist’s geometric abstraction as part and parcel with her progressive thinking and her relationships with colleagues in the American Abstract Artists Group such as Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still.

The auction will feature rare and new-to-the-market paintings and drawings from private collections in Europe and the Americas, to include large canvasses signed Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning and Oswaldo Guayasamin.

While de Kooning is known for his abstract work, he did play with the human figure within those abstractions.

Along with his friends de Kooning and John D. Graham Gorky created biomorphically shaped and abstracted figurative compositions that by the 1940s evolved into totally abstract paintings.

Arshile Gorky's portrait of someone who might be Willem de Kooning is an example of the evolution of abstract expressionism from the context of figure painting, cubism and surrealism.

Art movements In the early 1950s Abstract expressionism and artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential.

Part of the Willem de Kooning Academy is the Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and research in Fine Art, Media Design and Retail Design.

Common combinations with kooning

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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