When Lee Krasner Harnessed the Power of the Sun on Canvas

The established narrative of art history-especially the story of the abstract expressionist movement-often omits the significant contributions made by women. But, in this episode of Expert Voices, reconsider that narrative with Author and Journalist Mary Gabriel as she explores the life of Lee Krasner through the artist’s monumental painting Sun Woman I. Executed in 1957, a year after the death of her husband Jackson Pollock, Sun Woman I is one of the largest and most important paintings from Krasner’s celebrated Earth Green series. The masterpiece’s bright hues and looping lines rejoice in femininity, challenging the prevailing machismo of the age. The series is widely considered as the pivotal moment of her career, and even the notoriously competitive Willem de Kooning recognized that Krasner had “truly arrived” upon viewing her work. Sun Woman I, included in Krasner’s groundbreaking 1983-85 traveling retrospective, will be offered as a highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction (14 November | New York)
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[@peegee5072]

Love Ninth Street Women, which should be a mini series, and this video that brings it to life.

[@eoinllewellyn5889]

Lee Krasner is a genius. When I travelled to the states 10 years ago I cam across these paintings by an artist I had never heard of. How was it one could know Rothko, De Kooning, Still, Rauschenberg and Frankenthaler and Pollock and not know these amazing paintings. Pollock collapses next to Krasner,s works.

[@dustyeyer3710]

Lee Krasner finally getting the respect she deserves, it sure took long enough.

[@jamesthompson8778]

9th Street Women is a great book. And Lee's paintings rock.

[@leonardoluc6362]

Geweldige artist, love the season & sun painting she is underrated as an Artist woman in that period not so easy. When Willem de Kooning gives an Artist a compliment its huge. Please why are people leaving negative comments on this great artist is so sad.

[@anastasiagudko3987]

Amazing video and narration, images, and music 🎶 🎉 I love every second of it! 🫶

[@lynnaliya1]

I love Lee and LOVEEEE!!! Mary Gabriel’s book!!!

[@robertbutts9835]

I love the work of Elain de Kooning.. Wow i never new Lee was married to Jaskson.. She was a great artist.. Sad that both of these women seem to be over shadowed by the men they married

[@linuszimmermann6120]

Great artist!

[@mariajosefrancomaldonado6229]

Hermoso video, muchas gracias ( :

[@petemc5070]

Sensational painting.

[@outtathyme5679]

Worth more than that

[@user-nz4yd3iu4t]

멋찝니다~~

[@antonkolesnikov9131]

Amazing artist. Please! What is the soundtrack in the beginning of the video?

[@audreywoodward]

'Carnival 4' by M Rik.

[@antonkolesnikov9131]

Michael Angel thank you so much!

[@antonkolesnikov9131]

Michael Angel I checked it, but it’s not this one

[@audreywoodward]

@@antonkolesnikov9131 Shazam gave me that but your right. something tells me its Yann Tiersen who did Amilie

[@antonkolesnikov9131]

Michael Angel 👍

[@jhb61249]

Never gets past the initial sketching.

[@susannecromwell3461]

The music tho!...

[@ghoulape6976]

Weirdly enough I feel some of those feelings as a African American artist.

[@rainforme1850]

How long must we wait for talent to be recognized

[@KeyDyer]

Lee Krasner was a gangster , I love her

[@studioandydna]

Most have called this art movement abstract art or abstract expressionism, but these interpretations do not match because this art movement is called neo-impressionism or neo-expressionism. In Berlin in the 1980s, a group of artists called Neue Wilde was known for this art movement. Today they are no longer relevant for the art market because back then it was marketing and is still today.

[@jacekpokrak9258]

compmaturism give art a chance to be a new way

[@cliffdariff74]

courage? if you are an artist, that's what you do. stop with making her out to be a martyr.

[@ef377]

Must have taken all of 15 minutes to paint.

[@user-hi3bw6yj9v]

Drinking, smoking, womanizing.- You wonder what made her become attached to Pollock.

[@isaiasxd4453]

Withe people telling us , wath art is. Why? Because, they have the money

[@audreywoodward]

Famous through association im afraid.

[@NnaemekaAmamasi]

Very true sir!!!

[@Mike-ym6rl]

Her paintings are too big for the average home....that might have been the reason for not selling her work.

[@NnaemekaAmamasi]

IN THE NAME OF GOD...HOW DOES THIS LADIES WORK TRANSLATE TO GREAT ART???? THERE'S NO INTELLECTUAL RIGOR, NO PARTICULAR FORM, NO RULES FOLLOWED, NO COLOR HARMONY. JUST SCRATCHING WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN PRODUCED IN FIVE MINUTES. IT MEANS YOU ARE JUST SELLING A NAME.

[@audreywoodward]

Where i agree with you about Krasner's work not being that great, I dont think you need that full list of criteria to be a great and important painter. And in fact I believe not following rules is a good thing. There are plenty of important painters who's colour harmonics are questionable, and form is non existent.

[@NnaemekaAmamasi]

NO SIR I'M AFRAID I MUST DISAGREE. CERTAIN CRITERIA, EVEN IN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM COME TOGETHER TO CONSTITUTE BEAUTY, TO FORM HARMONY. AN ENJOYMENT TO THE SENSES THAT IS IMMEDIATELY EVIDENT. I WONDER HOW SUCH WORK AS KRASNER'S QUALIFIES AS ART. OR DO WE JUST REWARD HER FOR WALKING TO THE CANVASS WITH A BRUSH?

[@audreywoodward]

Are we talking about the full fine art sphere or just abstraction?

[@NnaemekaAmamasi]

NO WE CANT POSSIBLY GO INTO THE FULL SPHERE OF FINE ART, ITS VAST, LIFE ITSELF IS ART. AND AS HUMANS WE UNCONCIOUSLY RESPOND POSITIVELY TO ITS MANY FORMS WHENEVER TRUE ART SHOWS ITSELF. ALL I'M SAYING IS THAT GREATNESS IN ART SHOULD BE BASED ON ACTUAL TALENT NOT JUST SOMETHING CONTRIVED AS SUCH. AT BEST THE WOMAN REALLY LIKED ART BUT THAT ALONE DOES NOT MAKE HER AN ARTIST.

[@Celeste-wx8ce]

@@NnaemekaAmamasi And yet the experts and institutions disagree. Ironic that your opinion reflects such a reductive description of this kind of art...

[@junelee5975]

Reallyawful painting. Pleasedon’t try to fool anybody. Rich and stupid ppl may buy though

[@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164]

Third rate , what a bore.

[@khalilac17]

Forget about abstract art and the meaning of it. But if she was sad, and painting a picture that was happy, doesnt that make her an objectively bad painter? One that isnt even able to express how she really feels? Polar opposites. Bad painter but great marketing, that's the real art in all this