Woman I
Violent brushwork brought the human figure back into abstraction, shocking his peers
- Author
- Willem de Kooning
- Style
- Abstract expressionism — A huge canvas as an arena for gesture or a field of colour: no subject, all feeling
- Century
- 20th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1959–1973 Sydney Opera House — Jørn Utzon · Modern architecture (International Style) · Sydney
- 1962 Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol · Pop art · New York
- 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez · Mexico City
- 1931 The Persistence of Memory — Salvador Dalí · Surrealism · Portlligat, Catalonia
- 1928–1930 Chrysler Building — William Van Alen · Art Deco · New York
- 1928–1931 Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret · Modern architecture (International Style) · Poissy, near Paris
- 1922–1931 Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski, Heitor da Silva Costa · Art Deco · Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro
- 1950 Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) — Jackson Pollock · Abstract expressionism · Springs, Long Island
What was happening in the world
- 1936–1938 Great Purge
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
- 1939–1945 World War II
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad