
De kooning started painting Woman I in 1950 and ended in 1952. Woman I was the first of about
four paintings de Kooning worked on with the theme of a Woman. It was influenced by images
from fertility fetishes to American billboards. He reversed the traditional female repersentation
of, as he summarized " the idol, the Venus, the Nude," to painting a woman with hudge eyes, big
breasts, and a not so pretty grin. Shes out lined with in thinck and thin black lines, which loop
and streaks and drips. She is brightlly colored with strokes of orange, blue, yellow, and green.
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