De Kooning and spaces in the brain

Recently saw the de Kooning show at the Modern. It is a beautiful and sensitive installation. I was impressed with what a master he was and how tragic his increasing Alzheimers was. He seemed to have it all together until about the mid-1960s when he faltered. I do not know if this was due to the early on-set or what. The impressive thing about the work prior to that was just how integrated his art was in terms of structure, drawing, color, form and space. He inherited all the best of Dutch and European traditions and married them with his own brand of abstraction. His use of color was eccentric and all his own and the way his line cut into space suggested layered dimensionsa and parallel universes.
Much has been made of his Divas but those Goddesses were embodiments of his own emotions concerning women and they were complex. I never saw them as women hating perse but rather his complex feelings about the women in his life and women in general as powerful and unpredictable figures.
The shocking part of the exhibition is the visual representations of his increasing disability. He was at the end a painting machine that went on cranking out paintings that reflected the spaces in his brain as his brush tried to encompass what was no longer there; the focused energy and emotions of a master artist.

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