Work:

I wanted to choose a painting with a woman in it since his art focuses on women very much. I could have chosen a sculpture but he must have been more careful when doing a sculpture; if his hand slipped, he could hurt himself for example, but when he is painting, he wouldn’t need to worry about that. So I felt choosing a painting would be closer to his art.

I decided to go with the women series. I chose the first one, Woman I because I wanted the art to be closer to how he felt before it was shaped more by experience. It is a painting that both has abstractness, and has a woman, and these two qualities were very important in Kooning’s art.

This is the painting Woman I: