KRASNER, Lee

née en 1911 à Brooklyn, New York, États-Unis; 1938-1940, Cooper Union, National Academy of Design et Hofmann* à New York School; 1942, rencontre Pollock*; 1945, l'épouse; 1956, gèr son oeuvre; 1984, meurt le 19 juin à New York.

Type(s) : Artiste

Technique(s) : Peintre

Présentation : Elle est l'une des premières représentantes, après guerre, de l'école de New York*. Gothic Landscape, (1961, Tate), tout en lianes ascendantes et en cercles, évoque un clair de lune au travrs des bois, tout en se refusant à toute représentation, à mi-chemin entre Pollock* et De Kooning*.

Expositions : 1939, Mc Millan, New York (G); 1942, Mc Millan (P); 1950, Betty Parsons', New York (P).

Citation(s) : On a dit :-Some critics have superficially found Krasner's paintings too influenced by Pollock's. This is a serious mistake, the mistake of looking and no seeing. However, there are ways in which it could be said that they were alike and in complete agreement,. (...) Color was integral to their work, although it might be said that for Krasner color was somewhat more important that it was for Pollock -perhas because Krasner was (and is) innerdirected, given to an idiosyncratic mysticism. (John Bernard Myers, Tracking the Marvellous).