Word: krasner
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...display at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art though Dec. 9, is a romance as much as it is a mystery.Bringing to light the story of a friendship between four artists, paired into two married couples—Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and Herbert and Mercedes Matter—the show illustrates the intersection of their lives through letters, paintings, and photographs, a wide-ranging collection of relics that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.Of course, it’s the show’s overarching whodunit—the still-unanswered question of the authenticity...
...York Times article describes her as “one of the world’s most respected Pollock scholars.”Landau first viewed the disputed paintings in 2005 and concluded that they were the authentic work of Pollock. Two scholars, both connected with the Pollock-Krasner foundation, quickly came forward to declare that they disagreed with Landau’s findings.That same year, representatives of the HUAM team first met with Matter and New York art dealer Mark Borghi. According to Khandekar, those present agreed that HUAM should begin a technical analysis of the paintings...
...Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman--the anointed gladiators of the American avant-garde. The names are changed, but their vanities and treacheries and barroom intellectual brawls are pretty much as we know them. As for Hope, she resembles Pollock's actual wife, the steadfast Lee Krasner, though not in every detail, especially after McCoy's death, when she marries Guy Holloway, a composite of Pop artists from the '60s, who never quite comes to life...
Perhaps because he himself had been an artist, it did not take long for the likes of Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Lee Krasner to enter into Glimcher’s circle of intimate acquaintances. Glimcher founded Pace in 1960 immediately after he left the Massachusetts College of Art, convinced that he would never become a painter but confident that art would nonetheless be his life...
...history to win one, two, three years consecutively!" Just as writers like Thomas Pynchon spin out novels that are a blend of literary references (it's no coincidence one of the main characters in The Crying of Lot 49 is a radio DJ), just as visual artists like Lee Krasner have created collages of bits of older paintings (she even used pieces of her husband Jackson Pollock's canvases), Craze's work is simultaneously an assault on tradition and a tribute to what's gone before. His listeners get the future and the past in stereo: the nostalgia...