Joan Miro and Willem De Kooning

De Kooning's work is prototypically mid-century: Along with Jackson Pollock, whose work was even more abstract, De Kooning was one of the most significant and influential painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His 1952/3 work "Woman IV" demonstrates all of the energy that is the signature characteristic of this school of art as well as the tendency of Abstract Expressionist artists to fill the entire canvas. While pre-modern artists tended to divide the canvas into a central space defined by the most important figures in a composition (with the periphery also often inhabited by important figures), Abstract Expressionists tended to fill the entire canvas with a nearly equal degree of color and imagery.

This painting is, as one might suspect from its name, one of a series of works. Between 1

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