“His drawings and paintings both look to genre painting to enact a confrontation with tradition, negotiating a set of pictorial conventions drawn from the vocabulary of genre, yet through the modernist logic of subjective, individual style.”
João Ribas

Left: Willem de Kooning, The Visit, 1966-7. © 2020 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Right: Arshile Gorky, The Lead of the Artichoke is an Owl, 1944,
© 2020 Estate of Arshile Gorky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York