De Kooning

Willem de Kooning has an intensely expressionist style. He has intense colours and dramatic distortions. De Kooning's women were generalised with hair, make-up and features that often evoke images of 1940's fashion models, he also considered the shape of the human shoulder "boring" and would rearrange anatomy if necessary to avoid the drooping line of the slope of the shoulder. He employs slashing stokes of paint and swiftly painted lines that dissolve rather than define the body, this adds to the suggestion of moving flesh.