Artist Model research
Lee Krasner is an artist who pioneered the abstract contemporary movement in New York, she is an artist who greatly impacted the contemporary community in New York. Her career as an artist was greatly overshadowed by that of her husband, Jackson Pollock. That, however, is not to say that her work was not recognized in the world of contemporary art.
Lee Krasner never allowed herself to be tied down by one distinct style of art. She was an artist who constantly sought inspiration from the world around her and the events in her life, like that of the death of Jackson Pollock whilst drunk driving. Lee Krasner was a painter artist who thrived off of her natural ability to make art. Her resourceful personality, found in both her art and her inspirations, allowed her to extend her art-making past that of starting and finishing an artwork. One of her works that most intrigued me is the mosaics she had made.
Using leftover scraps from her artworks, as well as old jewelry and trinkets, Krasner made an artwork using multiple resources. “When the bitter winter of 1947 forced Krasner to work in the living room (they could only afford to heat one floor of the house at a time), she decided to turn two old wagon wheels from the farm into mosaic tables, using leftover tesserae as well as bits of costume jewelry, keys, coins, and broken glass. (Barbican Gallery Guide)”.
Her ability to find art in the most abstract of inspirations really inspires me to attempt to use leftover scraps from my artworks. I have been working with oil-based ink and I have kept the rags that I used to clean up my work. I wonder how I could incorporate a resourceful perspective in my work. What scraps, pieces of art, am I disregarding because I am not considering the possibilities past paint on a canvas?
Web Links
https://www.moma.org/artists/3240
https://www.anart4life.com/lee-krasner/ – Quote Reference.