Woman VI is a 1953 abstract work of art painted by Willem de Kooning and first displayed at the Sidney Janis Gallery in Manhattan.

The Woman paintings of the early 1950s are widely considered to be de Kooning’s most important works for their significance to postwar American cultural history and social events, such as the mid-century Feminist Movements.

The McCarthy era after World War II was a time of artistic censorship in the United States, but, if the subject matter were totally abstract, then it would be seen as apolitical, and, therefore, safe.

For example, Thomas B. Hess, the longtime executive editor of ARTnews, pointed out about de Kooning’s works that Boscoreale frescoes used to be an important painting technique in Roman art.

His exceptional talent was discovered by Jaap Gidding; he decided to enroll de Kooning as a night student at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques, where he remained for eight years.

The Dutch system of integrating fine and applied arts imbued in de Kooning a respect for tradition and craft that remained fundamental for his work.

[7] Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, as well as Arshile Gorky are also regard as members of the New York avant-garde, with de Kooning championed as the leader of the movement.

By combining simple, large shapes with violent, slashing brushwork, De Kooning has created a bold and dramatic composition.

This fracturing is heightened by a background composed of similar geometric shapes that flatten the picture plane; there is no delineation of space between the figure and ground.

To those critics against his Woman series, de Kooning simply responded, “it is all about freedom.” Mona Lisa probably the best-known painting in the history of art, due to it mystery forms and figure.

During and after World War II, as the center of international power moved to America, expressing itself most directly in New York city, a new art was born.

In 1946, Robert Coates, the critic for the New Yorker, applied the term "Abstract Expressionism" to the work of certain of these New York-based painters, like de Kooning.