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What kind of painting did de Kooning do?

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He began experiments with abstraction as early as 1928, but continued to produce realistic paintings throughout the 1930s. Influenced by Arshile Gorky , de Kooning forged a powerful abstract style and in the 1940s became a leader of abstract expressionism . In his monumental series of the early 1950s entitled Woman, he reintroduced a representational element.

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