Lee Krasner
dal 9/6/2000 al 27/8/2000
Segnalato da
9/6/2000
Lee Krasner
Akron Art Museum, Akron
Lee Krasner is
the first full-scale
retrospective of
the major
American painter
Lee Krasner
(1908 - 1984)
since her death.
Krasner was the
only female
associated with
the first
generation of the
New York
School. This
exhibition
articulates her critical contributions to the
movement and brings an important feminist
perspective to the discussion of Abstract
Expressionism. Krasner's work demonstrates an
ongoing artistic dialogue with a diverse range of
artists, including Hans Hoffman, Willem de
Kooning, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and her
husband, Jackson Pollock. Krasner was influenced
by Pollock's work but she was a powerful influence
on his work as well.
The traveling exhibition comprises sixty paintings,
collages, and drawings on loan from major
collections around the world. Together, these
works-many of them not publicly exhibited in
decades-present the complete trajectory of
Krasner's work. Organized chronologically, the
exhibition begins with the artist's early figurative
work of the 1930s and includes important examples
from all phases of her career, including the
magisterial series Eleven Ways to Use the Words
to See.
Organized by Independent Curators International
and curated by noted art historian Robert Hobbs,
this revealing exhibition demonstrates Krasner's
lifelong refusal to settle on a single style with which
to express her artistic and personal concerns. It
also examines her position as one of the most
important American painters of this century. Dr.
Hobbs states, Lee Krasner's art diverges from
mainstream Abstract Expressionism. It represents
an unrelenting search for a dynamic self that
continually outdistances her work. Predicated on
this open-ended sense of herself, Krasner's art is
particularly relevant at the end of the millennium,
when old definitions of a cohesive and unchanging
self are being seriously questioned.
With fierce determination and an ever-questioing
eye, Lee KRasner helped define-and redefine-the
art of this century. Over the course of five decades,
Krasner defied convention and created an identity
distinct from her role as Kackson Pollock's wife.
From figurative painting to Abstract Expressionism
and beyond, that journey is now captured in Lee
Krasner, a full-scale retrospective of her work.
The Akron Art Museum
70 East Market Street
Akron Ohio 44308-2084
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