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Lee Krasner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1908 almost nine months to the day after her parents were reunited. Joseph, Krasner’s father, had emigrated to the United States from a small village in Russia three years earlier to escape brutal anti-Jewish violence and to seek a new home for his family.
Jan 7, 2020 · Lee Krasner was a pioneering Abstract Expressionist, who shook up the 1950s New York art scene with a bold, fresh and experimental approach to making art. She led the ‘all-over’ technique, covering her canvases with flowing, rhythmic patterns of form and colour that burst with life, sometimes violently slashing apart her old work and ...
Aug 19, 2019 · Lee Krasner circa 1938. In the late 1930s, she studied with Hans Hofmann, the German émigré who was the most progressive art educator in New York. via Barbican Art Gallery. Intelligence, though ...
Jun 4, 2019 · Krasner’s commitment to change started young. She was born Lena, the first child of her émigré Orthodox Russian Jewish parents to be born on US soil, in 1908; her family had fled a shtetl ...
Lee Krasner. 1908 to 1984. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Russian Orthodox Jewish family, Krasner pursued formal art training at several New York City institutions and also studied with the influential German abstract painter Hans Hofmann. Like many of her generation, Krasner supported herself in the 1930s by working for the Works Progress ...
Lee Krasner was a renowned American Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with her husband Jackson Pollock and peers Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Arshille Gorky, she helped establish a wholly new painterly language. Krasner’s work fluctuated between mosaic-like shapes and representational images, never comfortable with keeping the same ...
