![]() His style shifts from early works to the women, to big, bold thickly painted abstractions to light spirals of colored abstractions, spanning the course of his career. Not that violence was mentioned on any of the wall plaques at MoMA, where the chronological exhibition methodically shows de Kooning moving away from realism and toward abstraction. Seeing many of his works for the first time and seeing them as a woman, I was particularly struck by the violence to the female form in his series of Woman portraits from the 1950s. ![]() Many articles have been written about “de Kooning: A Retrospective” at MoMA, as you would expect for such a huge survey of this Modern and prolific master who has held a rather awkward place in art history. Woman IV, (1952-1953), oil-enamel and charcoal on canvas, 59 x 46 1/4 in
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