Willem De Kooning's Woman Analysis

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While I don’t find them particularly provocative, Willem de Kooning’s Woman series to be somewhat disturbing. I can appreciate the variety of gestural brushwork and de Kooning’s determination to work, rework, and revisit these pieces, but I find the aggressive strokes and the way he depicts a woman’s form to be childish and alienating towards women. Woman I’s pinup-esque abstract form is rather boxy, making it hard to discern shapes outside of her head, chest and feet, noticeable in large part to the garish colors like the pinkish hues at the bottom of the work. From the disturbing expression to the silver bar on the side, there really isn’t anything I enjoy about this piece. His 1952 Woman II on the other hand I find to be more easily readable
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