{"id":349,"date":"2018-12-03T23:37:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/elizabethlin\/?p=349"},"modified":"2018-12-03T23:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:37:58","slug":"women-in-art-lee-krasner-1908-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/elizabethlin\/2018\/12\/03\/women-in-art-lee-krasner-1908-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Art: Lee Krasner (1908-1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Krasner:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lee Krasner was an American Abstract Expressionist known for her unique contribution to the advent of Abstract Expressionism. She was a key transitional figure within abstraction and did this by connecting early twentieth-century art with new ideas of postwar America. As a significant postwar American painter, she had great artistic versatility and advanced skill with intensive training in art theory. She helped devise the “all-over” technique which influenced her husband’s, Jackson Pollock, “drip paintings”. Another technique\/strategy she used was to take “breaks” in order to revise her aesthetic, allowing her to improvise her art style. For example, her paintings\/collages show her exploration of colours and graceful rhythmic\u00a0forms.<\/p>\n

Krasner developed her own style of geometric abstraction that was grounded in floral motifs and rhythmic gestures. She was unique in terms of her commitment to using hard-edged figurative elements and a certain amount of cerebral control. This is contrastive\u00a0to the less-controlled automatism that was practiced by her contemporaries.<\/p>\n

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I find Krasner’s works fascinating. Her abstraction is unlike any other artist I’ve ever seen and I find myself enjoying her style quite a bit. While she was an avid advocator of her husband’s works, Jackson Pollock, she became overshadowed by his art and I do wish that she could’ve gotten the recognition as much if not more than he did as her contribution to Abstract Expressionism was crucial.<\/p>\n

Artworks:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Untitled (Little Image Series) (1949) (Oil on canvas)
https:\/\/www.stonybrook.edu\/commcms\/pkhouse\/images\/krasner-untitled.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Igor (1943) (Oil on canvas)
https:\/\/arthive.com\/res\/media\/img\/orig\/work\/8f3\/428354.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Right Bird Left (1965) (Oil on canvas)
https:\/\/awarewomenartists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lee-krasner_right-bird-left_1965_aware_women-artists_artistes-femmes-1500×786.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Portrait in Green (1966) (Oil on canvas)
https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Krasner-_Portrait-in-Green_-1966.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Still Life on a Table (1938) (Oil on paper)
https:\/\/collectionapi.metmuseum.org\/api\/collection\/v1\/iiif\/482519\/1005648\/restricted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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