Lee Krasner Colours - Untitled - at the MOMA, New York
This work is part of Krasner’s Little Image series of the late 1940s, which she began soon after she and her husband, Jackson Pollock, moved from New York City to Springs, New York, on Long Island. Working in a small bedroom she used as her studio, she applied thick paint—sometimes directly from the tube—in rhythmic and repetitive strokes, giving equal attention to every inch of the canvas. Like many of her peers, Krasner invented a language of private symbols that implied but did not specify meaning.
And this is what the Lee Krasner said about this series:
I had to study Hebrew and I had to learn to write in Hebrew. I can neither read it today nor can I write.
But I have endless messages that go on indefinitely in a kind of hieroglyph of some sort which certainly isnt true Hebrew or any other language. And I cant say that consciously I can relate it to any specific thing. But suddenly it was there, so it shows up in a bit in the painting at that time.
Source: MOMA and the Internet.
Lee Krasner Colours - Untitled - at the MOMA, New York
This work is part of Krasner’s Little Image series of the late 1940s, which she began soon after she and her husband, Jackson Pollock, moved from New York City to Springs, New York, on Long Island. Working in a small bedroom she used as her studio, she applied thick paint—sometimes directly from the tube—in rhythmic and repetitive strokes, giving equal attention to every inch of the canvas. Like many of her peers, Krasner invented a language of private symbols that implied but did not specify meaning.
And this is what the Lee Krasner said about this series:
I had to study Hebrew and I had to learn to write in Hebrew. I can neither read it today nor can I write.
But I have endless messages that go on indefinitely in a kind of hieroglyph of some sort which certainly isnt true Hebrew or any other language. And I cant say that consciously I can relate it to any specific thing. But suddenly it was there, so it shows up in a bit in the painting at that time.
Source: MOMA and the Internet.