Painter
Lee Krasner was born on 27th October, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York, the sixth of seven children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, who emigrated from Bessarabia.
Krasner was born Lena Krassner, but she changed her name several times, eventually settling on Lee Krasner by the late 1940s. It has been suggested by art historians that Krasner may have used the abbreviated "Lee" as an attempt to disguise her gender.
She referred once to herself as "Mrs Jackson Pollock" and her own career was often compromised by her role as supportive wife to him, arguably the most significant postwar American painter, as well as by the male-dominated art world.
Krasner was a key transitional figure within abstraction, who connected early-20th-century art with the new ideas of postwar America. Inspired by artist Piet Mondrian's "grid," Krasner helped devise the "all-over" technique, which in turn influenced Pollock's revolutionary "drip paintings."
Krasner was remarkable for her artistic versatility and advanced skill, which, coupled with her intensive training in art theory, enabled her to revise her style and technique multiple times over the course of her career. Krasner purposefully initiated these "breaks" in order to distance herself from such artists as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, whose work she found too "rigid" and repetitive, and also to express herself more fully.
This led to her innovative Little Imageseries of the late 1940s, her bold collages of the 1950s, and, later, her large canvases, brilliant with color, of the 1960s.
Krasner's incredibly high standards led her to cut up her older canvases that she found lacking. She recycled and reconfigured these scraps and pieces in the collages, a practice that suggests that she was inspired by the work of Henri Matisse, whose work also inspired her colorful, decorative, large paintings of the 1960s. Because she reused her earlier canvases in this way, only a small body of Krasner's early work remains.
In the 1970s, Krasner was "rediscovered" by feminist art historians, which began a greater recognition of her art and career.
For further reading see:
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-krasner-lee.htm
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