... fragmented human figures, continuously piecing them together and disassembling them again, he was influenced by cubism but not accepting cubism's clear, fixed, and stable composition. Just as he dismembered the human figure he destabilised cubist design, decomposing it into carelessly shifting and interpenetrating compacted but open forms, this was the way Marilyn Monroe was painted he concentrated little on detail and used large expressive brush movements capturing the voluptuous figure of Marilyn Monroe. De Kooning recognises that, like all female sex symbols, Monroe is often viewed more as an object than as a whole person and he portrays her almost as a shop window dummy with no trace of eroticism in some ways it could be said that de Kooning was the one that interpreted Marilyn in this way. Marilyn Monroe would not of liked being portrayed like this; she was forever trying to show the world that she ...

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