Slow Looking: Willem de Kooning's "Saturday Night" 

I've always been fascinated by the fact that de Kooning was famous for abstraction, yet his Woman paintings are some of the best known.

Please do more of these!

Very ineresting . Thank you so much….

Superb

It's just not a strong de Kooning. Good de Koonings hug the picture plane almost like a Mondrian. (think 'Excavation, 1950'). But here, in 'Saturday Night' the different quadrilaterals superimpose on each other step by step as your eye proceeds upward . That's why the near-shapes on the bottom seem closer than those towards the top. This is what would happen in a representational painting. There's a lot of juicy detail but with all the interruptions, they don't get it over the top.

9-10 faces

Too many words. A few more longer silences would have suited me better.

Not my cup of tea