Sentences with phrase «shaped by alcoholism»

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By the 1980s, suffering from alcoholism and dementia, De Kooning's paintings became more sparse and graphic, featuring amorphic lines with shapes of color, less dense and more open and airy than his earlier works.

Davis's biography, shaped by struggles with poverty, alcoholism and critical neglect, all reversed in late career, is the subject of a remarkable chronicle composed by Ms. Haskell for the catalog, but is only lightly touched on in the exhibition.