Abstract

De Kooning is the latest and I suppose the last of the series of great painters whose occasional work in three dimensions has enriched and even transformed the sculpture of the modern period. As with Daumier, Degas, and Picasso, de Kooning's talent is essentially linear: the figure imaged in painting calls out for its embodiment in sculpture. The implications of graphic suggestion of volume, once realized in clay, take on new power and energy, separate from their source on the flat surface, uninhibited by the sculptor's traditional concern with gravity and structure.

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