 life, active life.” His final creative burst had a sheer number of canvases resembling Women 1,his earlier acclaimed effort. Storr narrates in his essay, that films of the artist at work show that he would labor over certain passages, rephrase a curve, cancel out large, complex areas thus creating a clearly legible distribution of bounded shapes, flowing lines and open spaces.
He was confident of his freedom to paint with all creative restraint. These films produced an uncanny experience reading the tracks of brush across the canvas. These moves would envy anyone then painting. Moving away from Abstract Expressionism, he dwelled on various techniques of neo- expressionism. By virtue of its freshness, De Kooning’s works will be placed in the foreground of any accurate picture of this period. I think De Kooning life’s art achievement speak for themselves by its demand and recognition in the art world.
As the controversy surrounding his late works Kooning was an imaginative which was not easy to be understood by his few contemporaries. He could be likened to Beethoven who created his masterpiece Ninth Symphony when he could hear single word of formed music. A genius in his own department De Kooning, in spite of his progressive disease, created something original and fresh away form his earlier works.