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Johns' 1958 show figures in many stories of American art as the first step in the turn away from abstract expressionism, from the hot grandiloquence of Pollock and De Kooning toward the cool of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art--the art of the '60s and after.
The story begins at a low point in de Kooning's life.
As Close describes him, de Kooning was a wreck.
So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.
But when de Kooning pulled himself together and began painting again in earnest, in 1981, his paintings looked unlike anything he had made before.