num_pages: 85
description: "De Kooning/ The Women" is an example of how some of the best New York City galleries are making major museums seem ponderous and predictable. If a museum would ever organize an exhibition on the startling, creepy and sometimes painful images of women painted by Willem de Kooning and Jean Dubuffet in the aftermath of World War II, it might be more comprehensive and scholarly than this one, at the Pace Gallery, but it would probably not be as unpretentious and intimate. Although the focus of the show is narrow, its reach is unlimited. De Kooning and Dubuffet are famous and influential artists. The work of each, particularly de Kooning, still has the capacity to surprise and shock. In their images of women, both artists let themselves go, personally and pictorially. Juxtaposing their approaches to art, and their feelings about sexuality and women, clarifies not only their work, but also postwar French and American art.
language: English
title: Willem De Kooning - Jean Dubuffet: The Women
titlecomplete: Willem De Kooning - Jean Dubuffet: The Women
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Pace Gallery Pubns