Focus on this artwork and analyze the Technique.
The medium and facture is part of the painting as well, and they also support the Woman VI to distinguish from other paintings. "In the large ‘Woman’ painting, de Kooning carries his concern with detail and shifting focus to an extreme point. He has always allowed details to absorb him, and often worked with notes, much as an author would, saving a phrase here to there for proper occasion."De Kooning is not only an artist, but also a writer. His painting process marked him unique from the other artists. Unquestionably, Woman VI is remarkable for its emphatic surface texture, in large part a result of the materials that de Kooning chose "A type of brushwork conspicuous in Woman that de Kooning was to make decidedly his own, a technique in which paint has been slapped on and scraped leaving streaks of different colors…"The innovation of the brushwork made by de Kooning distinguished Woman VI from the other paintings in the gallery. The effect of the materials, which is oil on canvas, shows the long-time making process. Woman VI is a large-scale painting, and the oil allows artists to have more time to finish it because of its slow drying time. The oil can also be left to dry for long periods of time, and, in fact, the painting needs to be exposed to the air for several weeks for drying. This characteristic made it possible for de Kooning to work on this painting over several sessions without fear of the paint drying up too early, and it is easy to make changes to the finished part. In de Kooning’s book, he wrote, "painting, any kind of painting is a way of living today, a style of living so to speak. That is where the form of it lies." De Kooning was more focused on paintings during his career because he believed that only paintings could speak for him.