Elaine de Kooning

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Elaine de Kooning was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and influential art critic known for her dynamic portraits and role in the New York art scene.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Elaine de Kooning canonical 4
Elaine Marie Fried de Kooning 1
de Kooning 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Abstract Expressionist artist
art critic
human
painter
birthName Elaine Marie Fried
commissionedBy White House
surface form: The White House
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1918-03-12
dateOfDeath 1989-02-01
educatedAt American Artists School
Hunter College
Leonardo da Vinci Art School
employer CMU
surface form: Carnegie Mellon University

Cooper Union
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn campus)
surface form: Pratt Institute

University of Georgia
University of New Mexico
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
familyName Fried
Elaine de Kooning self-linksurface differs
surface form: de Kooning
fieldOfWork modern art
portraiture
fullName Elaine de Kooning self-linksurface differs
surface form: Elaine Marie Fried de Kooning
genre abstract painting
portrait painting
givenName Elaine
influenced later generations of women Abstract Expressionist painters
influencedBy Arshile Gorky
Franz Kline
Willem de Kooning
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Artists’ Club (New York)
movement Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

New York School
notableFor art criticism in ARTnews
dynamic, gestural portraits
role in the New York art scene
notableWork Portrait of John F. Kennedy
series of portraits of John F. Kennedy
occupation art critic
painter
teacher
placeOfBirth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
placeOfDeath Southampton, New York, United States
residence East Hampton, New York, United States
New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
sexOrGender female
spouse Willem de Kooning
studentOf Willem de Kooning
wroteFor Art News
surface form: ARTnews

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Elaine de Kooning
Description of subject: Elaine de Kooning was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and influential art critic known for her dynamic portraits and role in the New York art scene.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Willem de Kooning spouse Elaine de Kooning
Green River Cemetery, Springs, New York hasBurial Elaine de Kooning
subject surface form: Green River Cemetery
New York School associatedWith Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning fullName Elaine de Kooning self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Elaine Marie Fried de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning familyName Elaine de Kooning self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: de Kooning
Springs, New York hasNotableResident Elaine de Kooning