Lee Krasner in her quotes on painting & her life with Pollock - free resource, American art history

Lee Krasner in quotes - the American artist on her abstract painting & life in the U.S. with Jackson Pollock - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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Lee Krasner’s quotes describe and explain the goals and frequent developments of her abstract painting art. She reports moreover about her relation with American artist Jackson Pollock and their frequent exchange in ideas, advises, discoveries, or just smart things, concerning painting. They were married till Pollock’s death in 1956 in the U.S… They shared house, bed and painting for c. 15 years.

Krasner was one of the few woman-artists (with Eline De Kooning) of the first generation American Abstract Expressionism, which started c. 1943. In her quotes Lee Krasner looks back to this specifik period. She describes with accuracy and pleasure her artistic developments and all the many swifts. Her short comment on that : ‘For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant’.
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Some selected quotes of American artist Lee Krasner - as a short introduction of her extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’And then, you see, after I saw Pollock, met him, saw the work, I said, “I understand the third painter is (Willem) de Kooning,” and he said he didn’t know de Kooning and I said, “Well, I do and I’ll take you over and introduce you.” ’ - quote of Krasner, from ‘Oral history interview’, 1964-68, by Smithsonian Institution, United states

• ’In 1946 what I call my ‘Little Image’ began breaking through this (former) gray matter of mine. I felt fantastic relief that something was beginning to happen… .The canvas is down on a floor or table and I am working out of a tiny can. In other words, I have to hold the paint so I can move it…’ - Krasner’s quote, from ‘Art Talk, Conversations with 15 woman artists’, Cindy Nemser, 1975

• ’For me, it is a matter of whether the canvas allows me to breathe or not – if the canvas soars into space or if it is earthbound. When it is earthbound it irritates me enormously. ’ - her quote, from ‘Art Talk, Conversations…’, 1975
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  selection of free art-resources on American abstract artist Lee Krasner:

  • biographical notes on Lee Krasner, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Krasner
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Krasner, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Krasner
  • images of Krasner’s painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/lee-krasner
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]