{"id":4008,"date":"2026-09-13T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2026-09-13T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:59:05","slug":"willem-de-kooning-hilton-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=4008","title":{"rendered":"Willem De Kooning &#8211; Hilton Als"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4009\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Bitter-Rice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4009\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Bitter-Rice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the 1949 Italian film &#8220;Bitter Rice.&#8221; Photograph from Masheter Movie Archive \/ Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4012\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Excavation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4012\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Excavation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"754\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting &#8220;Excavation&#8221; by Willem De Kooning in 1950.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Images and quote taken from the article titled <strong>Body and Soul <\/strong>by Hilton Als, found in the September 14, 2026, print issue of the New Yorker magazine about a current exhibition of Willem De Kooning&#8217;s drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.\u00a0 Als wrote that <em>&#8220;The artist [De Kooning] said that \u201cExcavation\u201d was inspired by the neorealist Italian film \u201cBitter Rice\u201d (1949), a depiction of workers in northern Italy which is dominated by the bodies of women.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0The same article is in the New Yorker newsletter of September 11, 2026, with the title <strong>Willem De Kooning&#8217;s Excavations of Intimacy<\/strong>.\u00a0 [Click on either image to enlarge.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images and quote taken from the article titled Body and Soul by Hilton Als, found in the September 14, 2026, print issue of the New Yorker magazine about a current exhibition of Willem De Kooning&#8217;s drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.\u00a0 Als wrote that &#8220;The artist [De Kooning] said that \u201cExcavation\u201d was inspired by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=4008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Willem De Kooning &#8211; Hilton Als<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,71,459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photography","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}