Untitled is part of a late-1940s series called Little Images that Krasner made on a tabletop in her bedroom, which she began soon after she and her husband, Jackson Pollock, moved from New York City to Springs, Long Island. For this work she used repetitive strokes to apply thick paint, often squeezed straight from the tube. The composition is a grid-like structure filled with indecipherable marks. Krasner likened these symbols to Hebrew letters, which she had studied as a child but could no longer read or write. In any case, she said, she was interested in creating a language of private symbols that did not communicate any one specific meaning.
2019
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Lee Krasner
American, 1908–1984 12 works onlineLee Krasner was a force of nature, always pushing abstraction forward. Her work over 50 years suggests perpetual, restless reinvention, encompassing portraits, Cubist drawings , collage , assemblage , and large-scale abstract painting.
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Abstract Expressionism
The dominant artistic movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the first to place New York City at the forefront of international modern art.
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Impasto
An Italian word for “mixture,” used to describe a painting technique wherein paint is thickly laid on a surface, so that brushstrokes or palette knife marks are visible.
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New World Stage
Gallery 401In 1949 LIFE magazine published an article on the artist Jackson Pollock that asked, “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?
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