At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal
composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the
pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the
modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»
This
pictorial sign language will be a central theme throughout the rest of his career, and the overall
composition would later be used by Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky and other artists of the
modernist period.