woman

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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