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Krasner, Lee Biography Lee Krasner was the sixth of seven children of Jewish emigrants from Odessa, Russia. When she was 13 she decided to become an artist and was admitted on her second application to Washington Irving High School, the only public high school in New York City at that time that offered women professional art training. After graduation she studied first at the Women's Art School of Cooper Union and then, in her early 20s, at the National Academy of Design, both in New York. The New Deal's Federal Art Project enabled Krasner to work full-time as an artist from 1934 to 1943. During that time she studied with the hugely influential German painter Hans Hofmann, who exposed her to Pablo Picasso's Cubism as well as Henri Matisse's use of colour and outline. Synthesizing these European influences, Lee Krasner developed her own style of geometric abstraction, which she grounded in floral motifs and rhythmic gesture. In 1940 she began exhibiting her work with that of other American abstract artists. Her forceful personality and passion for painting soon brought her to the centre of the New York art world, a largely male arena that was in the midst of a period of intense ideological ferment. In 1942 Lee Krasner met the painter Jackson Pollock, whose work was being exhibited along with hers at an important show in a New York gallery. She was struck by the power of his work, and the two artists became friends. After their 1945 marriage the couple moved to a farm in East Hampton, New York, where they were to produce a large body of art work. Each artist influenced the other to some extent. Krasner often worked on a small scale, which separated her work from that of the other Abstract Expressionists. In the 1960s and '70s, Krasner continued her trademark explorations of colour and graceful, rhythmic form in paintings and collages, building upon the passionof her large-scale abstraction but also returning to her love of hard-edged figurative elements and a certain amount of cerebral control. For the first 25 years after Pollock's death, Krasner's reputation was eclipsed by his, partly because of her tireless advocacy of his work during his life and after his death. This perception changed when a 1981 show in New York, "Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship," helped demonstrate that she was both his artistic partner and a significant artist in her own right. You can buy Lee Krasner fine art reproduction oil paintings at Galerie Dada. Just click on the 'Back' button. |
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