The subject of the Manic Street Preachers song "Interiors (A Song for Willem De Kooning)", which is track number ten on the 1996 album "Everything Must Go". It is one of the seven or so tracks on the album penned by bassist Nicky Wire, and not by recently disappeared guitarist Richey Edwards (although one of Edward's lyrical contributions to the album was on the song "Kevin Carter", the South African Pulitzer Prize winning photographer).
The song outlines Wire's respect for the artists ability - 'who sees the interiors, like young Willem once did?', as well as making reference to his struggle with Alzheimers - 'now you seem to forget it so much'.
The result is music that goes from cheery and choppy on the verses to downright melancholic and wistful on the choruses. The notions of escape and remembering the past are major themes in Wire's lyrics, and the music set by Moore and Bradfield mixes picky guitar riffs with dreamy synths in an attempt to create in music what de Kooning managed with his art (judgement left to any prospective listeners on whether they manage to achieve this).
This song was not released as a single.