This work belongs to a group of abstractions inspired by the landscape. In them de Kooning simplified his visual vocabulary to a few powerful, expansive brushstrokes that evoke the vistas of color found in the natural world. He described the experience that inspired these works: “Just coming around roads, some place, and having the sensation of a piece of it, a piece of nature, like a fence, something on the road.
And I really get very elated by again looking, by again seeing that the sky…
![[CasaGiardino] ♡ MFAMBScreen shot 2014-05-15](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/6d/a1/3f/6da13f09c7db5de2c3b009c8af6a0559--pink-painting-pink-watercolor.jpg)
