Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Lenore Krassner, known professionally as Lee Krasner, was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth27 October 1908
CountryUnited States of America
artist abstract active
As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
thinking painting trouble
I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.
necks kind form
We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.
thinking media challenges
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
artist able never-change
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
mean men painting
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.
alive canvas breathe
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.
moving swings conformity
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.
thinking doe painting
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.
believe past crystals
I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.
artist keys paint
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.
voice intuition way
I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.
needs introvert periods
I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.
moving men technique
Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.