Viewing page 42 of 45

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

LEE KRASNER
DECEMBER 14, 1977

Evening lecture presented at the New York Studio School

Art:
-Art is history.
-Art is as old as man
-Art is one of the means of expression, as I take breathing for granted

On Recognition:
-Some artists have never received any recognition. ...say that I've not received very much (i.e. recognition), but there is not enough bitterness, anger or resentment to make me stop.

On Painting:
-In the Renaissance the space was way back there: in Cubism the space was up here.
-Caligraphy is something that I've always been interested in.
-I had a period I call "Grey Period"...just masses of grey..In my lifetime I've just had one grey period. It was a state of anxiety that built up and built up - it was that one grey period...and, boy, that was a hard period to go through. Then Jackson Pollock came and I worked through it.
-I've stopped working several times for periods of time. I don't carry guilt because I'm not working: I just want to be around when it opens.