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Lee Krasner

(American, 1908 – 1984)
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 aesthetic for very long. “I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes,” she once remarked. Krasner merged the tonal aspects of Cubism with the bright colors of Fauvism, as well as addressing the contemporary avant-garde. The subject of her work was mainly introspective, and dealt with understanding the individual within both modern society and the natural...